(15 Oct 2024)
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 15 October 2024
1. Various of police patrolling streets of Port-au-Prince
2. Various of display of weapons confiscated during operation against the Kraze Baryè gang
3. Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille entering news briefing room
4. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Gary Conille, Haitian Prime Minister:
"The second part of my trip was with (Kenyan) President (William) Ruto and remind him of the urgency to reinforce the (Multinational Security) Mission and send, as soon as possible 600 police officers that together with the national police will join us in the battle we are waging.”
5. Various of Prime Minister leaving news briefing
STORYLINE:
Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille on Tuesday said he had urged Kenyan President William Ruto to send more police to help combat powerful armed gangs.
At a briefing after a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya, Conille said he requested 600 more police officers to back up the 400 initially deployed to assist the Haitian National Police.
The request takes place just after a notorious gang leader was injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year.
A statement by the Haitian National Police said the second-in-command of the Kraze Baryè gang, known simply as “Deshommes,” was shot in Torcelle, a community in the southeast region of Port-au-Prince.
Some 20 other gang members were killed during the ongoing operations, which occurred on Saturday and Monday.
The police said they had confiscated firearms, munitions, phones and “sensitive materials and equipment.”
Authorities said the incursions would continue “in order to neutralize the leader of the gang and terrorist Vitel’Homme Innocent and his acolytes.”
Innocent has been sanctioned by the U.S., the European Union and the U.N. Security Council, with the U.S. offering a $2 million reward for information leading to his capture.
He has been indicted in the U.S. for the armed kidnapping of 16 Christian missionaries in 2021 and the slaying of missionary Marie Franklin and kidnapping of her husband in 2022.
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