Colombians arrested in Haiti for Moise’s murder are transferred to another prison

The 17 Colombians arrested in Haiti for the assassination of the president Young Moses in 2021, who were in the civil prison of Port Prince where at least fifteen people died last night in a gang attack, were transferred this Sunday to “other facilities”, official sources confirmed.

O Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs detailed in a statement that “the transfer of Colombians deprived of their liberty occurred later” sending “a diplomatic note to Government of the Republic of Haitiin which I requested that special protection be given to the physical integrity and security of Colombian citizens deprived of liberty in that country.”

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The gang attack on the prison allowed 3,597 prisoners to escape, out of a total of 3,696, which represents just over 97% of the inmates of what is the largest prison in the city. Haitian capital.

This is clear in the numbers from the Collective of Lawyers for the Defense of Human Rights (Caddho), and although there are no official data, at least fifteen of the escaped prisoners were murdered, as EFE was able to verify through count the scattered corpses across various parts of the capital.

The prisoners who did not escape spoke to the press about the bad conditions life sentence in Port-au-Prince’s civil prison, where at least three-quarters of inmates are awaiting trial.

Among the prisoners who decided not to leave the prison where Colombian mercenaries are held accused of participating in the assassination of the president, who last night sent messages that circulated on social media describing the distressing situation experienced during the robbery.

One of them explained to the media that accessed the interior of the facilities, including EFE, the reason why he did not flee: “I didn’t fly because I didn’t owe anything. I’m living karma, just God knows what I’m living and what I had to live for.”

Source: Elcomercio

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