Four suspects in the murder of the president of Haiti sent to US

Four suspects in the murder of the president of Haiti sent to US. The US Justice Department has stated that four main suspects in the July 7, 2021 murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were extradited from Haiti to the US on Tuesday.

Seven suspects in the investigation are now being held in US custody. The main prison in Haiti still holds of prisoners who are suffering from acute overcrowding as well as frequent food and water shortages.

James Solages, 37, and Joseph Vincent, 57, dual nationals of Haiti and the United States, as well as German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 44, a citizen of Colombia, were accused on Tuesday with planning to kill or kidnap someone outside of the country.

A fourth man, Haitian American Christian Sanon, 54, is charged with smuggling ballistic vests from the United States to Haiti for use in the assassination plot. The four will appear in federal court in Miami on Wednesday.

The US Justice Department has already charged three others in the assassination, with Sanon, who the department called an “aspiring political candidate,” a key leader of the operation. It said Sanon recruited about 20 Colombians with military training, led by Rivera Garcia, to help carry out the assassination. “On July 6, 2021, Solages, Vincent, Rivera and others met at a house near

President Moise’s residence, where firearms and equipment were distributed and Solages announced that the mission was to kill President Moise,” the department alleged. US law is being applied in this case because the plan to kill the Haitian president was allegedly partly organized on US soil in Florida, by American-Haitian nationals.

The three charged with the assassination face up to life in prison. Sanon faces up to 20 years for his role in supplying the operation.

Meanwhile, the case has reached a virtual standstill in Haiti, with local officials last year nominating a fifth judge to investigate the killing after four others were dismissed or resigned for personal reasons.

One judge told the AP news agency his family asked him not to take the case because they feared for his life. Another judge stepped down after one of his assistants died in murky circumstances.

Source:aljazeera.com