The wife of slain Haitian President Moïse says the men who murdered her husband also believed they'd killed her in an assassination rocked that has rocked the Caribbean nation's already shaky democracy.
ransacked the room and looked through the president's files, all while speaking Spanish — and not the island's dominant languages of French and Haitian Creole — Martine Moïse said.
"'That’s not it. That’s not it,'" she recalled them saying before one finally declared:"'That's it.'"“They were looking for something in the room, and they found it," she said.“When they left, they thought I was dead," Martine Moïse told the newspaper in an interview in South Florida, where she's recovering from her wounds.
Before the group of"highly trained and heavily armed" people reached them, the couple was jarred awake by gunshots outside their home, prompting Jovenel Moïse to pick up a phone and call for help. "He said, 'I found Dimitri Hérard; I found Jean Laguel Civil,'" she said, naming two officials in the president's security operation."And they told me that they are coming."in the ongoing probe that's so far implicated Colombian mercenaries in the president's slaying.
Martine Moïse said she still can't grasp how people got past 30 to 50 security personnel stationed at the president's home. None of them were killed or wounded in the attack.Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse addresses the media in Port-au-Prince in 2019.to be brought to justice. She believes Haitian elites are those who could've organized such a brazen attack.
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