Under the title "President of Haiti Before His Assassination: My Life is in Danger... Come Save Me," the Arabic website reported that before being assassinated in his home overlooking the capital, Haitian President Jovenel Moise called the police chief and a tactical unit officer at 1:30 AM on July 7. He urged the first to act quickly to repel the attack on him, stating, "I need your help now. My life is in danger, come save me... They are shooting near the house. Gather people." He repeated the same request when he contacted the officer, according to an American newspaper that obtained recordings of the calls made from the home of the 53-year-old president.
Seconds of silence followed Moise's call to the officer, "and then a strong gunshot sound from an assault rifle was heard,” possibly during his call with a third person, as inferred by "Al-Arabiya.net" from what the Miami Herald reported on Monday about the officer who instructed his men to jump into their vehicles and hurry to the presidential residence, "where shooting began four minutes before the first call," according to eyewitnesses and sounds reported by local residents.
When the police arrived at the house, they found the president lying on his back, bleeding in his bedroom (not in his office as previously stated) and discovered 12 bullet wounds in his forehead, chest, hip, and abdomen. "His left eye was gouged out, a practice associated with witchcraft, to prevent the victim from seeing you from the other world," explained the officer who requested anonymity to the newspaper. More information is available in the video shown above.
Who is the mastermind? The president's wife, Martine, 47, was shot but survived her injuries and was transported the same day to a hospital in Florida, where doctors treated her. She returned to Haiti "with a sling on her arm and a bulletproof vest" upon arriving at Port-au-Prince airport last Sunday.
As for the assassins of the president, who will be buried next Friday in his final resting place in Haiti's northern city of Cap-Haitien, famously known as "The Paris of the Antilles" in the Caribbean, it has now been revealed that they are 28 mercenaries, including two Americans of Haitian origin who have been arrested, and the remaining 26 are Colombians, most of whom are former military personnel. Police have killed three and arrested 18, while five others remain fugitives. The perplexing question continues: why did they kill a president whose term was nearing its end, and who is the mastermind behind it?
