Thursday, August 4, 2022, during a strong operation carried out in Terre-blanche, commune of Croix-des-Bouquets, the National Police of Haiti (PNH) released safe and sound, 6 hostages (including a French national).

The hostages had been sequestered for 10 to 22 days depending on the case in a house belonging to the former powerful gang leader "Kòlèg" of "Nan Rémy" (former influential member of "400 Mawozo") fatally injured on Wednesday by the forces of the order during a confrontation https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37321-haiti-news-zapping.html

"Operations aimed at the definitive dismantling of gang networks operating in the neighborhoods of Croix-des-Bouquets and the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince will continue in order to track down bandits and kidnappers to their last entrenchments," reiterates the PNH.

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