She declines to participate in the official commemoration of the first anniversary of the assassination of her husband on July 7. Martine Moïse is firm on this point.
“The Moïse Family does not intend to attend the commemorative activities supported by the Haitian State, whose head of government is the subject of serious presumptions of assassination on the President of the Republic. This is what can be read in this communiqué from the communication office of the former First Lady of the Republic.
Indeed, the government intends to make strong for the first anniversary of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and plans to inaugurate a mausoleum in honor of the former head of state in the Gardens of the Museum of the Haitian National Pantheon (MUPANAH) these July 6 and 7. But this activity will take place without Martine Moïse, the wife of the late president.
The presence of the de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry is probably an embarrassment. The communiqué pointed out “that judicial investigations had mentioned compromising elements on the alleged involvement of the head of the Haitian government in the planning of the said plot” to assassinate the man who had been her spouse for 25 years.
The efforts of the current government to declare July 7 a holiday, in addition to the decision to mark the first anniversary of the death of the Haitian head of state, are not enough to dispel doubts and reassure the presidential family.
“Thursday, July 7, 2022, brings back the first anniversary of the assassination, in tragic circumstances, of the 58th President of the Republic of Haiti, HEM Jovenel Moïse, in his private residence, in Pèlerin 5. One year later, despite the arrest of some suspects nationally and internationally, the appointment of a fifth investigating judge to conduct the investigation, the dismissal and the availability of some officers of the Haitian National Police (PNH), the judicial investigation is stalling,” the statement continued.
The widow said that she and her children, have formed a civil party, “in order to file a complaint at the office of investigation against the current head of government, the accused whose names appear in the report of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) on the assassination of the president and their accomplices not yet identified who are still free to move.
Martine Moïse intends to mark in her own way the tragic disappearance of the former president. ”The Moïse family invites every Haitian of the territory, the diaspora, all those who are affected by the disappearance of President Jovenel Moïse, according to their beliefs and religions, to make their significant contributions to the fight for the triumph of justice against the murderers and the system “.
It is the investigating magistrate Walter Wesser Voltaire who is in charge of the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. He confirmed to the daily Le Nouvelliste that he is currently in a phase of hearing people.
The case of the assassination of Jovenel Moïse has already been assigned to five investigating judges. The progress is far from being significant. Haitian justice is in total paralysis, undermined by corruption and recurring crises. The infrastructure is also not spared by bandits. The Port-au-Prince courthouse has been invaded by assailants who still control it for a month.
The investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is being conducted in parallel in the United States where many suspects are incarcerated.
Former First Lady Martine Moïse, in an interview, said she trusted the U.S. justice system to set the record straight and punish those responsible.
Meanwhile, one of the suspects in the assassination of the Haitian president, the Jordanian businessman Samir Handal, detained in Turkey since last November, recovered his freedom yesterday Monday. The Turkish justice was not convinced by the formalities of the extradition request of the Haitian government, reports the Turkish news agency DHA.
This raises indignation on the side of pro-Jovenel Moïse in Haiti. The former Prime Minister Claude Joseph has also criticized the behavior of the government in place for having put together a junk file. The former chancellor recalled that he had campaigned for the arrest of Samir Handal in Turkey, indicating now that his life is threatened.
