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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 16 January 2025
1. Various of women dressed in white during wake of slain journalist Jimmy Jean
2. Various of women crying next to coffin
3. Jean in the coffin, photo
4. Music band playing during funeral
5. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Robest Dimanche, Spokesman of CEMEL Media online collective:
“The state must take responsibility for all citizens and those who are victims of state negligence because it is neglecting us even in death—Jimmy Jean and Markenzy Nathoux, along with more than seven other journalists, still have bullets in their bodies today. This is our battle, and we will remain firm in demanding justice reparations.”
6. Various of Father Serge Deralus praying during Mass
7. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Serge Deralus, priest:
“Our security is in the hand of God; only God is capable of guaranteeing it to us.”
8. Various of Priest celebrating Mass
9. Various of family attending
10. Photo of Jean
STORYLINE:
There was anger mixed with tears from mourners as the first of two journalists who were recently killed by gangs while covering the failed reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital were buried on Thursday.
The ceremony and mass took place in a church in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Jimmy Jean was a 44-year-old father of six children who worked for the online news outlet Moun Afe Bon and covered daily developments in his troubled country.
On Christmas Eve, Jean was gunned down when gangs opened fire on police, government officials, and journalists gathered for the anticipated reopening of the General Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Also killed was fellow journalist Marckendy Natoux, who worked for Voice of America in Haiti, and a Haitian police officer.
At least seven other reporters were wounded in the worst attack on journalists in recent years in Haiti.
“We want the state to take responsibility,” said Robest Dimanche, spokesman for the Online Media Collective, a group that defends the rights of online journalists in Haiti.
The attack prompted the health minister, who was not present at the scheduled reopening, to resign, but journalists are demanding compensation from the government beyond the money families have received to bury the two reporters killed.
Dimanche noted that the government invited journalists to the hospital’s scheduled reopening on Dec. 24 but failed to create a safe space.
Shortly after the attack, Johnson “Izo” André, considered Haiti’s most powerful gang leader and part of the Viv Ansanm group of gangs, which has taken control of 85% of the Port-au-Prince capital, posted a video on social media claiming responsibility for the attack, saying he had not authorized the reopening of the hospital that gangs had previously pillaged.
More than two dozen reporters covered Jean’s funeral on Thursday as they mourned the loss of their colleague in one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a journalist.
The journalists were among the more than 5,000 people reported killed across Haiti last year, according to the U.N.
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