Haiti PM fires prosecutor seeking charges against him in president's killing | Malay Mail

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HAVANA, Sept 15 ― Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry yesterday replaced the chief public prosecutor who had been seeking charges against him as a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis. Moise was shot dead on July 7 when...

HAVANA, Sept 15 ― Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry yesterday replaced the chief public prosecutor who had been seeking charges against him as a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis.

Henry, a political moderate and neurosurgeon whom Moise named prime minister just days before his death in an attempt to reduce political tensions, has sought to forge a new consensus between different political factions.Prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude said last week that phone records showed Henry had twice communicated with a man believed to be the mastermind behind Moise's killing on the night of the crime.

That prompted Claude to write yesterday to the judge overseeing the investigation into Moise's slaying and ask him to charge Henry as a suspect. It remains unclear whether the order actually is valid as Haiti's 1987 constitution mandates that the prosecutor can only be appointed or fired by the president, a position that remains vacant.Decades of political instability as well as natural catastrophes have plagued Haiti's development. Its aid-dependent economy is the poorest in the Americas, more than a third of Haitians face acute food insecurity, and gangs have turned swathes of the capital into no go areas.

Henry retorted on Twitter that “no distraction, invitation, summons, manoeuvre, menace or rearguard action” would distract him from his work.

 

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