The Executive Director of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH), Pierre Esperance, accused Wednesday Michel Martelly of doing everything to assassinate him, citing several meetings organized directly or indirectly, in Florida (United States), and in Haiti, by the former Haitian president.
“In 2021, three months before the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the godfather (Michel Joseph Martelly) organized a meeting in Miami with his clan to attack RNDDH and assassinate me,” said Mr. Espérance. The human rights activist said that Michel Martelly, “after taking his godson (Jovenel Moïse),” stopped momentarily before returning to the charge last January.
The head of RNDDH said that Michel Martelly had even told his men that the biggest gift they could give him on the occasion of his birthday last February was to kill him.
Pierre Espérance reported another meeting organized in a studio in Kenscoff under the auspices of a baron of the Haitian Party Tèt Kale, indicating that the national network for the defense of human rights has sent a correspondence to the judicial police on March 18 in which the organization has provided information about the people who participated in this meeting. Mr. Espérance lamented that the DCPJ has not followed up on this correspondence about three weeks later.
“As they (Michel Martelly and his PHTK men) are all powerful, they have their gangs and are in comfort with the power of Ariel Henry that they have imposed so they want to attack us. We are not going to live on our knees, we prefer to die standing up,” said Pierre Espérance.
Earlier this week, the program director of the National Human Rights Defense Network, Marie Rosie Auguste Ducénat, denounced a plan to assassinate the executive director of the organization Pierre Espérance. She stated that 13 people, including the former Director General of the Ministry of the Interior Fednel Monchéry, an influential member of the PHTK, would be involved in this plot.