In Haiti, the outgoing Prime Minister, Claude Joseph, announced the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, killed in an armed commando attack on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday July 7 in his private residence. The first lady is injured.
“Around one in the morning, a group of unidentified individuals, some of whom spoke in Spanish, attacked the private residence of the President of the Republic and thus fatally injured the Head of State”, announced the head of government in a press release quoted by France 24. “Condemning this odious, inhuman and barbaric act”, the Prime Minister calls “the population to calm” and assures that “the security situation of the country” is “under control”. “All measures have been taken to ensure the continuity of the State and to protect the Nation”, he added.
Jovenel Moïse came to power in 2017, after two years of transition and the repeated cancellation of the presidential election. In June 2016, he was finally elected in the first round of an election marked by an abstention rate close to 80%.