While participating, this Thursday, July 7, 2022, in the commemorative ceremony of the first anniversary of the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse at the Museum of the National Pantheon (MUPANAH), Prime Minister Ariel Henry and Minister of the Interior and Territorial Communities Listz Quitel trivialized the dysfunction of the Port-au-Prince courthouse following the attack of the Village de Dieu gangs on June 10, 2022.
Questioned by a journalist from the online media “Ziltik enfo” regarding the hostage taking of the Port-au-Prince court of first instance, the head of government Ariel Henry assimilates it to a false information. According to him, this story was invented to mislead public opinion.
The Minister of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities, Listz Quitel, agrees and believes that the paralysis of activities at the IPT has nothing to do with the violence of armed gangs, suggesting that it is the lawyers, judges and court clerks who have decided to abandon the premises of the courthouse without taking into account the words of the leader of the Village de Dieu gang, Izo, in which he claimed responsibility for the attack on the IPT
“The criminals do not occupy the Port-au-Prince courthouse,” declared Dr. Ariel Henry and Listz Quitel, who are respectively denounced in the case of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the kidnapping of Pastor Jean Ferret Michel.
These striking declarations explain why the government authorities ignored the appeals of the various magistrates’ associations following the attack on the TPI.
A few days after the attack, the government commissioner of the capital, Jacques Lafontant, had set conditions for going to inventory the damage caused by the gangs. He requested a police escort with at least two armored vehicles to go to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in order to visit the premises and to retrieve files from the offices of the deputy commissioners.
A step that has so far not yielded any results.
