Friday, the Grand'Anse Departmental Directorate of the Office for the Protection of the Citizen (OPC) intervened in the locality of Fonds Rouge Torbeck, Commune of Bonbon where a 15-year-old boy, Lovensky Calvaire was shot two times by a police offider attached to the Bonbon Police Station in circumstances not determined.

The OPC management met with the parents of the victim and promised to accompany them.

Officers from the Law Enforcement Unit (UDMO) from Jérémie, who came to pick up the police officer allegedly responsible for this death, ran into a crowd who objected to the police leaving the scene. UDMO officers used their weapons and tear gas to disperse the crowd and be able to take the alleged police officer with them. During the shooting, Jean Blaise Fritz, a notable was fatally hit by a bullet.

The angry population set fire to the police station.

Subsequently, the OPC's departmental directorate went to the Jérémie police station to collect the version of the facts of the police officer involved in this tragedy. Officials at the police station refused access, explaining that the Department of Judicial Police (SDPJ) had not yet proceeded with the hearing of the presumed guilty in order to try to determine the exact circumstances of the boy's death.

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