Port-au-Prince.- The attack by armed groups last week in the Haitian town of Savien, in the Artibonite region, in which seven police officers were killed, was allegedly planned in Port-au-Prince by three high-ranking officers of the Haitian National Police (PNH ), as reported by local media on Monday.
This is revealed by a report from the Departmental Intelligence Service sent to the Artibonite Departmental Directorate (DDA) of the Haitian National Police, according to the media.
The document was leaked to the local press and was even authenticated by the head of a police union, Lionel Lazarre.
They are three senior PNH officials, including two general inspectors and a divisional commissioner.
Also participating in this attack is a coalition of gangs from Savien, Palmiste, Liancourt, and the Canaan mercenaries, as well as a political organization, according to what was revealed by the local media.
“Their main objective is to cause chaos in Artibonite, which would lead to the assassination of the St. Marc District Commander and the DDA by police officers,” the document reads.
It could also have had the goal of inciting the Police against all the commanders of the Artibonite jurisdiction, physically assaulting the director of the DDA, and using elements of social networks to guide opinion toward a failure of the institution.
After the murder of the seven agents on Wednesday, dozens of armed police officers attacked the private residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was not in the country, a day later to repudiate the authorities’ lack of action in the face of the murders of agents. by the armed gangs, which caused tension and paralyzed the activities in the nation that day and on Friday.
Haiti has been immersed in crisis and violence for years, a situation aggravated after the assassination in July 2021 of President Jovenel Moïse (2017-2021) by alleged mercenaries, most of them Colombians, who broke into his private residence.
Last October, the government officially requested the dispatch of a foreign force, after which the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, proposed establishing a “rapid action force” made up of soldiers from one or several countries and not unde
