Saturday, following a major operation by the Haitian National Police (PNH) in the Village de Dieu (South of the Capital) aimed at regaining control of this area, which involved more than a hundred police officers including agents several special units of the PNH and armored vehicles, at least 5 suspected gang members were arrested.

According to Inspector Gary Desrosiers, Deputy spokesperson for the PNH, this operation, which began at around 7:00 a.m. and lasted more than 8 hours under the shots of gang wars of weapons and replicas of the police officiers, there were no casualties among police officers thanks to armored vehicles recently purchased https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30095-haiti-flash-15-armored-vehicles-land-in-haiti.html . No detailed assessment was published in terms of seizure, either on the victims among bandits as in the civilian population or on the achievement or not of the objectives of this operation.

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