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PORT-AU - PRINCE — A gang killed a former Haitian senator who headed the government's housing program in a wealthy neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on Saturday amid a surge in violence by criminal gangs in the Caribbean nation's capital, the prime minister said Sunday. rice field.
In recent weeks, after riots erupted in Port-au-Prince and a turf war in the town of Cité Soleil that left 148 people dead, he said as police fought gangs near Labourée. , Yvon Bucelles was shot. , wounded or missing.
"His murderers, and all other criminals mourning in the country, must be fully prosecuted and answered in court for their dishonorable conduct. We must," Prime Minister Ariel Henry wrote. on Twitter.
Buissereth has served as a senator since 2006, and in 2017 he was named to head a public company for the promotion of public housing known as EPPLS.
The agency focuses on low-income housing and has long partnered with foreign agencies such as the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development.
Haitian gangs staged a fierce shootout in Port-au-Prince in his late July, shutting down major thoroughfares and the downtown Municipal Market.
Earlier last month, a shootout between rival Haitian gangs near Port-au-Prince left thousands without access to water, food or medical care in the small coastal town of Cité his Soleil. trapped in (Reporting by his Harold Isaac of Port-au-Prince and his Brian Ellsworth of Miami, edited by Daniel Wallis)
