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Associated Press
Evens Sanon
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AP) — Near the Haitian capital, where a former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor was murdered in an upmarket neighborhood His body was set on fire along with his nephew, government commissioner Jacques Lafontan told The Associated Press on Sunday. The body was found in the Laboule community on Saturday afternoon. It is near Perelin where Jovenel his President Moise was assassinated in his home last July.
Buiseles, director of the Haiti Public Housing Agency, and his nephew were found traveling in a government-issued vehicle in a charred black interior, Lafontant said. rice field. He said gangs trying to control the area were likely responsible.
"It was a terrible incident," he said.
The Ti Makak gang, which means 'little monkey', is fighting the Toto gang for control of the area. Since Moise was assassinated, the gangs in and around the Port-au-Prince capital have become more powerful and engaged in violent turf wars.
Buissereth and his nephew were killed while driving on a road increasingly used by Haitians to avoid his Martissant region, which connects Port-au-Prince with Haiti's southern region. . killed or injured dozens of civilians in the area.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry condemned the killing of Buiceres as an "barbaric act" by the Labouré gunmen.
"His assassins, like all other criminals mourning in the country, will be prosecuted within the law and will be charged with their dishonorable act before justice." We have to respond," he wrote Sunday in a social media post.
