Foreign media and organizations report the tragic course of the situation Haitiwhich fights organized crime, but has not yet found a way to control the activities of local gangs.
A weekend massacre during which they were supposed to have died at least 184 peoplewas supposed to be a bloody revenge of the accused who commissioned it Monela “Goals” Felixa. The leader of the group controlling the strategic Wharf area, Jeremie, believed that among the elderly there was a voodoo wizard who put a spell on his son, after which he died.
Haiti. Massacre of seniors. The gang leader took revenge for his son's death
As reported by the BBC, gangsters taking part in alleged revenge dragged seniors out of their homes and then committed a massacre. Several younger residents were also killed Cite Soleilwho came to the rescue of their neighbors.
Non-governmental organization National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) claims that Monel Felix first asked a voodoo priest for advice about his sick son, and when the priest told him that one of the followers, a senior from Cite Soleil, had put a spell on the boy, he decided to take revenge.
The gang leader “decided cruelly punish all old people and voodoo practitioners who, in his mind, would be able to cast an evil spell on his son,” the local organization said in a statement. Committee for Peace and Development (CPD)quoted by the British “The Guardian”.
Meanwhile, the Haitian government has taken new steps, announcing “the mobilization of all forces to hunt down and destroy” those responsible for the purges. – The red line has been crossed – said the prime minister's office.
Haiti is fighting gangs. The country will descend into ever greater chaos
Cite Soleil is a densely populated shantytown in Haiti that is considered one of the poorest and most dangerous places in the country. This area is fully controlled by gangsters who, among others, restrict people from using mobile phones and leaving the areaso that they cannot inform about criminal activities.
Since 2003, voodoo has been operating in Haiti as official religion and he has many followers there.
He managed to condemn the macabre in Cite Soleil Secretary General UN Antonia Guterreswhich demands that those responsible for the tragedy be identified and punished. The UN estimates that the number of people killed in Haiti this year has reached five thousand. Over 700 thousand people have had to leave their homes due to chaos and conflict, and many Haitians are also starving.