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iciHaiti - PAP : Pre-carnival activities 2nd Sunday, 1 shot dead and several wounded
22/01/2019 10:10:38

Sunday, the second day of pre-carnival activities in Port-au-Prince, as thousands of festival-goers danced to the rhythm of the musical tanks of DJ's in the area of Champ-de-Mars, a young man, Jameson Edmond (30) was shot dead by an indeterminate origin bullet in front of the Port-au-Prince town hall stand.

Information confirmed by Inspector Gary Desrosiers, deputy spokesman of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) who said he was unable to comment on the information circulating that the bullet would have been by a police officer in plain clothes, announcing that an investigation had been opened to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy.

In addition, he said that several people had been arrested for acts of banditry and a weapon seized ; two plainclothes police officers who carried their service weapon despite the prohibition to walk with a firearm in the parade with the exception of uniformed police officers were also arrested.

Finally, to conclude this provisional assessment, in Pétion-ville, one person was shot and wounded, four others arrested and one weapon seized.

See also :
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-26684-icihaiti-pap-pre-carnival-activities-6-wounded-and-1-death-final-assessment.html

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