According to the Haitian ambassador to the United States, the commando group that assassinated the president was made up of “professional” mercenaries posing as officials of the American anti-drug agency (DEA).
President Moïse was killed at his home by an armed commando at around 1 a.m., on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. According to the judge in charge of the case, quoted by the local press, his body was found riddled with 12 bullets, and his office and his room had been ransacked. His wife was injured and evacuated to Florida for treatment. His days are not in danger.
According to Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph, the attackers were "foreigners who spoke English and Spanish".
Police said Wednesday evening that they chased down suspected members of the commando immediately after the attack and were still "engaged in battle with these attackers".
“Since that night we have been fighting against them,” declared the director general of the Haitian national police, Léon Charles, in an address on television. “Four mercenaries were killed, two were intercepted under our control,” he added. "Three police officers who had been taken hostage were recovered," he said. No other information on the perpetrators of the assassination has been disclosed.
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