Gunfire, tension and fear in new day of escalating violence in Haiti
Adds details throughout, new lede, headline) Port-au-Prince, Mar 1 (EFE).- On the second day of escalating violence in Haiti on Friday, there were exchanges of gunfire between armed gangs and police, sporadic shots heard in numerous neighborhoods, and dozens of families left their homes in Port-au-Prince.
The last two days have left at least 20 people injured and six police officers murdered by armed gangs in Canaan (based in the north of the Haitian capital) during an attack on the Bon Repos sub-police station on Thursday, according to latest data from the police union, which has not yet been able to recover the officers’ bodies. “Too many police officers are being killed. Too many women and children are raped. Too many people are forced to leave their homes.
We say it often and you all know it: there are ways to solve the problem, but the political authorities do not have the will,” denounced Garry Jean Baptiste, delegate of the SPNH police union.
Members of this group accompanied by officers on Friday went to the headquarters of the National Police in Port-au-Prince, tired, they denounced, of acting without means. “We know what is happening (…) It is a plot to destroy the National Police and show that it is impotent, so that help can be requested from an international force. We are willing to fight.
