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Here more on the kidnapping from the last article

Assassinated Cop Led Kidnapping Ring from Pernier Police Station

Police officials never moved against him despite kidnapping victim’s complaint


November 14, 2012



Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur was the leader of a kidnapping ring in the police, according to one of his alleged victims. Assailants shot the cop dead on Nov. 9.

Heavily armed assailants gunned down Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur in a hail of bullets on the morning of Fri., Nov. 9 near the Gérald Bataille circle in Tabarre.

A police spokesman and some media have presented the killing as a response from criminals to the Oct. 22 arrest of prominent Haitian businessman Clifford Brandt and several others – including policemen and ex-policemen – for kidnapping.

However, a former police official told Haïti Liberté that Inspector Bellefleur was in fact working with Clifford Brandt’s criminal organization and led a kidnapping ring based in the police station of Pernier, which, not coincidentally, is the same neighborhood that two of Clifford Brandt’s abductees, Coralie and Nicolas Moscoso, were found and freed (see Haïti Liberté, Oct. 31, 2012).

Most alarmingly, a kidnapping victim of Bellefleur had denounced the cop and some of his associates to the Haitian National Police (PNH) immediately following his release last April, but apparently no action was ever taken.

“I think that Bellefleur was rubbed out because, if arrested, he might have revealed the names of powerful people, as Brandt is maybe doing now,” said the former police official, who requested anonymity.

Yves Michel Bellefleur’s bullet-riddled body at the scene of his Nov. 9, 2012 murder near the Gérald Bataille circle in Tabarre.

A few hours later in the afternoon of Nov. 9, another policeman, Johnby Mathieu, was shot dead by unidentified armed men near the police outpost at Portail Saint-Joseph, in the capital’s commercial center.

“These assassinations are happening in a context of struggle against major criminality,” said Frantz Lerebours, the PNH’s spokesman.

The lack of action against Bellefleur reflects, at the very least, negligence on the part of the PNH’s former Director General Mario Andrésol and his successor Godson Orélus, who replaced Andrésol on Aug. 15, 2012.

“In April 2012, Emane ‘Jacques’ Jean-Louis, the owner of Sourire Rent-a-Car in the capital’s Tabarre district, was kidnapped,” reported Haïti Liberté on Aug. 15, 2012. “His family eventually paid the kidnappers about $800,000 in ransom, and he was freed. But, immediately following his release, Emane took legal action against the PNH for the involvement of police officers in his kidnapping, according to the former high-ranking police official who requested that he not be named. Emane provided the license plate number of a police vehicle used and the names of several of the policemen involved. Up until now, there has been no action by the police to arrest any of those that Emane accuses of having helped kidnap him.”

In his complaint, Jean-Louis denounced Inspector Bellefleur as the leader of the kidnappers based in the Pernier police station.

Police Chief Godson Orélus said that “we have zero tolerance” for cops found to be involved in kidnapping.

Haïti Liberté asked Chief Orélus about Jean-Louis’s complaint again in a Sep. 16 interview. “We have zero tolerance” for cops found to be involved in kidnapping, Orélus responded. “When we find them, we arrest them, and we put them in prison.”

The question remains: did either Orélus or Andrésol investigate Jean-Louis’s complaint. If not, why not? If so, why wasn’t he arrested?

“Bellefleur was working alongside Clifford Brandt in kidnappings,” said the former police official. “Six months ago, Emane Jean-Louis gave to authorities, in a formal complaint, the names of the policemen, including that of Yves Michel Bellefleur, who kidnapped him. Why was nothing ever done to arrest them? It seems it wasn’t until the Moscoso kids were kidnapped that the police took any action, and that was apparently only done because the U.S. authorities became involved.”

Orélus did not return calls and emails from Haïti Liberté requesting comment for this story.

On Nov. 13, Mario Andrésol gave an interview to Radio Kiskeya to denounce the death threats he claims have been made against him and the Internet rumors that he was placed under house arrest. He dismissed rumors that he had been interrogated by FBI agents, who are presently in Haiti, about the Brandt affair. Andrésol said that his security detail had been reinforced by the PNH because of death-threats he has received in recent weeks.

Former Police Chief Mario Andrésol said that his security detail had been reinforced by the PNH because of death-threats he has received in recent weeks.

Andrésol also saluted “the memory” of the late Inspector Bellefleur. Is it really possible that he was unaware of Emane Jean-Louis’s complaint against Bellefleur?

When he was riddled with bullets, Bellefleur was still the head of the Pernier police station, located near the police academy on the northern fringes of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

“Bellefleur had just dropped his children at school, he was in civilian clothes, and he was killed by gunmen traveling in a vehicle with tinted windows and a ‘service of the state’ [government] license plate” said PNH spokesman Lerebours. According to witnesses at the scene, Bellefleur was hit by many bullets, his attackers had automatic weapons, and they were in a Toyota all-terrain vehicle, commonly called in Haiti a “Zoreken” (Shark bone).

According to Radio Vision 2000, Lerebours said on Nov. 13 that “the first elements in the police investigation” into Bellefleur’s murder “reveal links with organized crime networks in the country,” but he “was still not able to say whether it involved [Brandt’s] powerful gang network recently dismantled by the police.”

Are the police incapable of establishing the links between Bellefleur and Brandt’s organization, or are they trying to cover-up the links?

Meanwhile, PNH spokesman Lerebours told the press that Johnby Mathieu, 29, was an Agent I with the Central Command of Street Police (DCPR). He was killed by four bullets, two in the throat, two in his arms. Mathieu had graduated with the PNH’s 21st promotion. He was dressed in civilian clothes when shot by assailants who got away. Justice of the peace Fritz Dilia inspected the crime scene before the body was removed.

Link:

Assassinated Cop Led Kidnapping Ring from Pernier Police Station | Haiti Liberte

 

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Now?

Im watching this criminal on local island tv. The haitian slot is broadcasting his speech...


Seem to me the US is planning to hijack the movement form all this Rubio and old haitian military genocidal murders pushing for banna out. I wonder is the new haitian military is for him

 

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Im watching this criminal on local island tv. The haitian slot is broadcasting his speech...


Seem to me the US is planning to hijack the movement form all this Rubio and old haitian military genocidal murders pushing for banna out. I wonder is the new haitian military is for him

They probably are...

 

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Yea that high yella bytch was BLATANT with her propaganda.

 

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AUDIO Jovenel Moïse is Psychologically Damaged says European Union Diplomat, Allegedly
Madame Tabesse has reported that she "spoke to a disoriented man without any lucidity, therefore unable to maintain relations with the European Union in this current context." It added that she had to "shorten their meeting, after the credentials ceremony because she found a man whom she describes as insane. Faced with the most acute crisis of his mandate, the president proposes unrealistic solutions unrelated to the current context." The diplomat left the National Palace "confused and perplexed."
The report continues by saying that First Lady Martine Moïse is inconsolable about her husband's mental state. "The president has not eaten for days and can not sleep after Religions for Peace withdrew from conducting dialogue rejected by the opposition."
The report said the stubborness of the United States was "most distressing." "US Ambassador Michèle Sison and UN SG Representative Helen La Lime are opposed to any plans that would allow President Moïse to step down from power in dignity and in peace."
The EU representative calls American support for Jovenel "blind and hyprocritical. He [Jovenel Moïse] has lost all credibility and the Americans have not helped the country. They have not released a dollar to help the population, some of whom are shouting famine. Faced with this untenable situation, Jovenel must find money to calm the street but the coffers are empty after being looted by ministers, deputies and corrupt senators and close friends of Jovenel."
Madame Tabesse's tone alluded to the possibility of the European Union leaving Haiti if nothing was done to remedy the situation. The report says she told Brussels that it was "impossible to collaborate with a president in such a deplorable psychological state, a president fists and feet bound and back to the wall."
She called the two American supporters of the Head of State, Michele Sison and Helen La Lime "two crazy Americans" that "maintain this hell." "These two unequaled diplomats give reports that Nicolas Maduro is being persecuted instead of talking about the President's loss of credibility with his people."
AUDIO Jovenel Moïse is Psychologically Damaged says European Union Diplomat, Allegedly

 

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Yea that high yella bytch was BLATANT with her propaganda.

Yep and idiots don't get it... Its the bourgeois is linking with the US to lie

 

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Dozens vie to be Haiti's leader amid perceived power vacuum

Dozens vie to be Haiti’s leader amid perceived power vacuum
World Oct 9, 2019 1:03 PM EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As the public appearances of President Jovenel Moïse fade with Haiti’s deepening political turmoil, dozens of people from political parties old and new are vying to become the country’s next leader as they seize on widespread discontent.

They range from a wealthy businessman with no political experience who owns a chain of grocery stores to veteran opposition leaders trying to gain a stronger foothold in Haiti’s politics.

Moïse still has more than two years left in his term after taking office in February 2017 and says he will not step down, but protesters seeking his resignation vow to continue with violent demonstrations that have shuttered businesses and kept 2 million children from going to school for nearly a month. Nearly 20 people have died and about 200 injured in protests fueled by anger over corruption, rising inflation and scarcity of basic goods including fuel.

“It’s a completely dysfunctional country,” said Benzico Pierre with the Center for the Promotion of Democracy and Participatory Education, a Haitian think tank. “There’s no trust in the institutions.”

It’s a concern that Carl Murat Cantave, president of Haiti’s Senate, acknowledged in a speech televised Tuesday as he warned that Haiti’s crisis is “rotting.”

He urged Moïse to launch a dialogue and said all options should be placed on the table.

“The country needs a genuine re-engineering so it can move forward because everyone is failing as a leader,” he said in Creole. “Only the people right now have legitimacy.”

Hours after Cantave’s speech, Moïse’s office issued a statement saying he has named seven people charged with leading discussions to find a solution to help end the crisis. Among them is former prime minister Evans Paul, who recently told The Associated Press that he believes Moïse has several options, including nominating an opposition-backed prime minister and shortening his mandate.

On Wednesday, opposition leaders rejected Moïse’s statement and said they are organizing another large protest for Friday.

In her first public comments on Haiti’s current situation, U.S. Ambassador Michele Sison told the AP that the country needs a functioning government that can address people’s pressing needs. She urged all elected leaders, including Haiti’s president, senators and deputies, to work together to identify and agree on a peaceful way forward.

“We’re urging the various stakeholders to enter into dialogue in good faith, a dialogue launched and led by Haitians,” she said.

Moïse also called for dialogue and unity nearly two weeks ago during a televised speech broadcast at 2 a.m., further angering Haitians. He hasn’t spoken in public yet and only briefly appeared in front of a business called Nick’s Exterminating last Thursday to shake hands with a handful of vendors in the capital of Port-au-Prince before his convoy sped away.

Opposition leaders have rejected any suggestion of dialogue, saying they want Moïse to step down immediately.

Among those leading the protests is an opposition coalition called the Democratic and Popular Sector, whose members include attorney André Michel, who was one of 70 candidates in the 2015 presidential election. On Wednesday, he told the AP that the commission Moïse just announced has no credibility.

Opposition leaders have rejected any suggestion of dialogue, saying they want Moïse to step down immediately.
“A head of state who respects himself and who respects his people does not create, in times of crisis, a commission of negotiation with his advisers and his spokesmen. This is not serious,” he said.

Michel is joined by several senators as part of the opposition coalition, including Sen. Youri Latortue, who has denied corruption allegations that the U.S. made against him more than a decade ago and who once led a party allied with Moïse’s Tet Kale faction.

“The president has shown he is incapable of governing,” Latortue told AP.

He noted that a company once owned by Moïse was named in a Senate investigation that found that huge sums of money from a Venezuelan subsidized oil program were misspent during Haiti’s previous government. Moïse has denied any wrongdoing. The investigation also named several former top government officials from the administration of President Michel Martelly, who preceded Moïse in office and is an ally.

Opposition leaders have created a nine-person commission they say would be responsible for overseeing an orderly transition of power and help choose Haiti’s next leader, noting that the constitution calls for the head of the Supreme Court, who was appointed by Moïse earlier this year, to take over if a president resigns.

Among those vying to become president is well-known Haitian businessman Reginald Boulos, a former doctor. He echoed Latortue’s expressions and urged Moïse to resign as well.

“There is no way the president can ever recover his credibility, his legitimacy,” Boulos told AP, adding that his goals if elected include the redistribution of wealth and a greater investment in agriculture.

As protesters continue to clash with police, set up barricades and march through parts of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in Haiti, many Haitians say they are eager to welcome a new leader but they also warn that they will keep an eye on them.

“They don’t work for those who are weakest,” said protester and activist Claude Toussaint.

Many demonstrators, such as entrepreneur Pascéus Juvensky St. Fleur, say the protests are not only about replacing a president, but changing a system that they say marginalizes many in a country of nearly 11 million people where 60% makes less than $2 a day and 25% make less than $1 a day.

St. Fleur tapped on a worn copy of Haiti’s constitution as he said that Article 35 guarantees freedom to work and that only all Haitians together can bring about change.

“It’s not one person, it’s not one regime, it’s not a president, it’s not the opposition, it’s not the bourgeoisie, but it’s us who should do it,” he said. “We dream of, and we want, a better Haiti.”

 

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Dozens vie to be Haiti's leader amid perceived power vacuum

Dozens vie to be Haiti’s leader amid perceived power vacuum
World Oct 9, 2019 1:03 PM EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As the public appearances of President Jovenel Moïse fade with Haiti’s deepening political turmoil, dozens of people from political parties old and new are vying to become the country’s next leader as they seize on widespread discontent.

They range from a wealthy businessman with no political experience who owns a chain of grocery stores to veteran opposition leaders trying to gain a stronger foothold in Haiti’s politics.

Moïse still has more than two years left in his term after taking office in February 2017 and says he will not step down, but protesters seeking his resignation vow to continue with violent demonstrations that have shuttered businesses and kept 2 million children from going to school for nearly a month. Nearly 20 people have died and about 200 injured in protests fueled by anger over corruption, rising inflation and scarcity of basic goods including fuel.

“It’s a completely dysfunctional country,” said Benzico Pierre with the Center for the Promotion of Democracy and Participatory Education, a Haitian think tank. “There’s no trust in the institutions.”

It’s a concern that Carl Murat Cantave, president of Haiti’s Senate, acknowledged in a speech televised Tuesday as he warned that Haiti’s crisis is “rotting.”

He urged Moïse to launch a dialogue and said all options should be placed on the table.

“The country needs a genuine re-engineering so it can move forward because everyone is failing as a leader,” he said in Creole. “Only the people right now have legitimacy.”

Hours after Cantave’s speech, Moïse’s office issued a statement saying he has named seven people charged with leading discussions to find a solution to help end the crisis. Among them is former prime minister Evans Paul, who recently told The Associated Press that he believes Moïse has several options, including nominating an opposition-backed prime minister and shortening his mandate.

On Wednesday, opposition leaders rejected Moïse’s statement and said they are organizing another large protest for Friday.

In her first public comments on Haiti’s current situation, U.S. Ambassador Michele Sison told the AP that the country needs a functioning government that can address people’s pressing needs. She urged all elected leaders, including Haiti’s president, senators and deputies, to work together to identify and agree on a peaceful way forward.

“We’re urging the various stakeholders to enter into dialogue in good faith, a dialogue launched and led by Haitians,” she said.

Moïse also called for dialogue and unity nearly two weeks ago during a televised speech broadcast at 2 a.m., further angering Haitians. He hasn’t spoken in public yet and only briefly appeared in front of a business called Nick’s Exterminating last Thursday to shake hands with a handful of vendors in the capital of Port-au-Prince before his convoy sped away.

Opposition leaders have rejected any suggestion of dialogue, saying they want Moïse to step down immediately.

Among those leading the protests is an opposition coalition called the Democratic and Popular Sector, whose members include attorney André Michel, who was one of 70 candidates in the 2015 presidential election. On Wednesday, he told the AP that the commission Moïse just announced has no credibility.

Opposition leaders have rejected any suggestion of dialogue, saying they want Moïse to step down immediately.
“A head of state who respects himself and who respects his people does not create, in times of crisis, a commission of negotiation with his advisers and his spokesmen. This is not serious,” he said.

Michel is joined by several senators as part of the opposition coalition, including Sen. Youri Latortue, who has denied corruption allegations that the U.S. made against him more than a decade ago and who once led a party allied with Moïse’s Tet Kale faction.

“The president has shown he is incapable of governing,” Latortue told AP.

He noted that a company once owned by Moïse was named in a Senate investigation that found that huge sums of money from a Venezuelan subsidized oil program were misspent during Haiti’s previous government. Moïse has denied any wrongdoing. The investigation also named several former top government officials from the administration of President Michel Martelly, who preceded Moïse in office and is an ally.

Opposition leaders have created a nine-person commission they say would be responsible for overseeing an orderly transition of power and help choose Haiti’s next leader, noting that the constitution calls for the head of the Supreme Court, who was appointed by Moïse earlier this year, to take over if a president resigns.

Among those vying to become president is well-known Haitian businessman Reginald Boulos, a former doctor. He echoed Latortue’s expressions and urged Moïse to resign as well.

“There is no way the president can ever recover his credibility, his legitimacy,” Boulos told AP, adding that his goals if elected include the redistribution of wealth and a greater investment in agriculture.

As protesters continue to clash with police, set up barricades and march through parts of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in Haiti, many Haitians say they are eager to welcome a new leader but they also warn that they will keep an eye on them.

“They don’t work for those who are weakest,” said protester and activist Claude Toussaint.

Many demonstrators, such as entrepreneur Pascéus Juvensky St. Fleur, say the protests are not only about replacing a president, but changing a system that they say marginalizes many in a country of nearly 11 million people where 60% makes less than $2 a day and 25% make less than $1 a day.

St. Fleur tapped on a worn copy of Haiti’s constitution as he said that Article 35 guarantees freedom to work and that only all Haitians together can bring about change.

“It’s not one person, it’s not one regime, it’s not a president, it’s not the opposition, it’s not the bourgeoisie, but it’s us who should do it,” he said. “We dream of, and we want, a better Haiti.”

Propaganda article like this shouldnt be reposted by any real haitian after reading the 3nd paragraph


Fyi pbs was supporting Jovenel and tet kale government. So im not surprise they still do in this article

 

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Propaganda article like this shouldnt be reposted by any real haitian after reading the 3nd paragraph


Fyi pbs was supporting Jovenel and tet kale government. So im not surprise they still do in this article

you mean Aristide?

edit:ah nevermind.

 

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Accused Racist, Congressman Steve King, Introduces Bill on Haiti

On Tuesday, a U.S. congressman, decried for his embrace of white supremacy, introduced a bill to get the United States more involved in the internal politics of Haiti that continues to stunt the country's institutional development.

U.S. Represenative Steve King (R - IA) introduced bill H.Res.619, called "Expressing support for the Haitian people and their Constitution, rule of law, and commitment to democratic principles", but it was anything but.

King's bill essentially is using the events of September 11, 2019 in the Haiti Senate to support President Jovenel Moïse, who is the target of daily nationwide protests for his resignation.

The bill calls for the House of Represenatives to condemn the actions of Haitian citizens and opposition lawmakers who used available means to stop the ratification of a Prime Minister and government not in keeping with the Haitian Constitution.

The Prime Minister-designate in question, Fritz William Michel, had not received certificat de decharge as Constitutionally required to be ratified as PM. Members of his cabinet also did meet residency, tax, and criminal background check requirements, as stated in the Constitution.

Evidence was also uncovered showing that Mr. Michel had received irregular no-bid contracts from the government, while working in the government, for everything from overpriced goats and construction of non-existant infrastructure projects.

Bribes of $100,000 [USD] were paid to at least five Senators to vote yes for ratification of the unconstititonal government but this violence against the Haitian people that has been going on for centuries is not what is decried in King's bill. Rather his position is that the people did violence against the Senate when they fought to stop this process.

Congressman King's bill also wants the House to publicly thank Haiti, which through its president, Jovenel Moïse and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bocchit Edmond, voted in support of military intervention in Venezuela. Haiti is being criticized by its fellow Caricom (Caribbean Community) members for being the only one to make that vote. Political observers believe it is the terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton who has convinced President Moïse to make the unpopular vote.

Mr. King also adds that he wants the House to encourage an "improved investment climate in Haiti to spur private sector-led growth." All of these are among the 8 recommendations in his bill.

King's bill, introduced, is now on the desk of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It comes only days after Haitian-Americans in Miami met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - FL) and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D - FL) and told the two moreover that Haitians did not want U.S. interference in Haiti.

Steven Arnold King has been threatened with censure in the House of Representatives and has been a sore for his fellow Republican colleagues for his embrace of white supremacy. He has used language aiming at Latinos, Asians and African-Americans in the past, and many Republicans have had to quit trying to defend him.

Link:
Accused Racist, Congressman Steve King, Introduces Bill on Haiti