Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AP) -Policie on Haiti announced on Tuesday that it has regained control of the critical telecommunications center that strongly armed gangs Last week he caught up and briefly disrupted air traffic and internet connection.
Acceptance was a rare success for the Haitian authorities and missions supported by a non -reference led by the Kenya Police tried to push through powerful gangs Finding full control over the capital, port-au-Prince.
Police operations in the place in the once-peaceful community of KensCoff began before dawn on Monday and lasted about two hours, according to Michel-Ange Louis Jeune, a spokesman for the National Police in Haiti.
“This is a strong message sent by a new police boss,” said Vladimir Paraison, who was appointed to office at the beginning of this month, referring to André.
Jeune did not give up questions during a press conference and did not say how many people, if at all, were killed during the operation.
He said the police found numerous weapons, including automatic weapons with a scratched serial number and more than 1,000 bullets.
“When the population is sleeping, the police don’t sleep. They’re working on people to sleep,” he said.
Last week, the gangs were filmed by Tyléc’s website and told the government that it was to start negotiations less than a week. The person in the video did not say what, if at all, the gangs demanded.
“You see, this is not a reputation. I’m in Tené,” says a gang member in the video. “If I don’t get any calls from you, I will leave my clan to burn the whole system now, and there will be no communication.”
In another video you can see one gang member apparently switching off multiple buttons on a large server and using a screwdriver to dismantle another server, because the room it has in the stopping. Later he stacks several of the basic boards outside and shoots them when he says, “I take everything.”
Two days after the takeover of the Haiti Aviation Agency, it condemned this event, but noted that it caused only minor disruptions because it was able to take some measures to circumvent the crisis.
The attack was accused of VIV Ansanm, a powerful federation of gangs that hit another key government infrastructure last year and the US was described as US foreign terrorist organization At the beginning of this year. At the beginning of last year, gunmen forced Haiti’s main international airport to close almost three months And he attacked the two largest prisons of the country and released about 4,000 prisoners.
In the video where the shooter of Téléca fell last week, Didi urged the government to give out the bullets to the police so they could come and go to the gang members.
Godfrey Otunge, the Kenyan commander of the multinational power in Haiti, was present at Tuesday’s press conference, but spoke only briefly.
“Be patient; you will see the results,” he said when the police spokesman promised similar raids in other areas of controlled gangs.
Tenéca is in the same community as the orphanage that gangs attacked at the beginning of this month. They kidnapped eight people, including an Irish missionary and a three -year -old child who remain missing.
It is estimated to check the gangs About 90% port-au-PrinceAnd this year they repeatedly attacked KensCoff to try to take over the area.
Experts say they are worried about a recent video published on the social media in which Jimmy ChérizierThe best known as the grill and one of the leaders of VIV Ansanm is to see a friendly chat with Kempes Sanon, who used to be one of his wildest rivals.
Sanon is the leader of Haut Belair/Les Argentins, an armed group that was a member of the G-Pèp, a federation of gangs that seriously encountered the Chérizier G9 coalition.
“It was a bit unusual,” said Diego da Rin, an international crisis group analyst, and noted that this was the first time Sanon publicly shows his face in this way.
The Chérizier and Sanon were police officers, and the experts wondered what the apparent new friendship could be for Haiti Bode.
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