{"id":1021325,"date":"2021-11-16T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021325"},"modified":"2021-11-16T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:18","slug":"turkey-arrests-suspect-in-haiti-president-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkey-arrests-suspect-in-haiti-president-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Arrests Suspect in Haiti President Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturkey-arrests-suspect-in-haiti-president-assassination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Turkish authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/turkey\/turkey-detains-suspect-in-assassination-of-haitian-president\/2422622\">detained<\/a> Samir Handal, a \u201cperson of great interest\u201d for his alleged connection to the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mo\u00efse, on Sunday at Istanbul Airport, Turkey\u2019s state-run Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police at Istanbul\u2019s main international airport intercepted Handal on the night of November 14 while he transferred flights. The man was \u201cflying from the U.S. to Jordan via Istanbul\u201d according to Anadolu Agency, which cited unnamed Turkish security sources.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Turkish news agency identified Handal as a \u201cbusinessman wanted on Interpol\u2019s red notice.\u201d Turkish court officials <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-europe-turkey-istanbul-haiti-be43c4447530a61a84fb38b27fcfd0f3\">questioned<\/a> Handal following his detention at Istanbul Airport on Sunday. Turkey\u2019s Justice Ministry later issued a 40-day temporary custody order for Handal, prompting Turkish police to transfer the businessman to Istanbul\u2019s Maltepe prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18781306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-522665226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18781306 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-522665226-1024x690-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 20:  Haitian presidential candidate Jovenel Moise arrives at the National Press Club April 20, 2016 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Jovenel Moise arrives at the National Press Club April 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Haiti Foreign Minister Claude Joseph <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/claudejoseph03\/status\/1460303650534920194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1460303650534920194%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trtworld.com%2Fturkey%2Fturkey-detains-man-sought-in-haiti-president-s-murder-51691\">issued<\/a> a statement via Twitter on November 15 confirming Istanbul had notified Port-au-Prince of the development.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI just had a phone conversation with the Turkish Minister, my friend Mevlut Cavusoglu, to thank Turkey for the arrest of Samir Handal, one of the persons of great interest in the investigation into the assassination of the president,\u201d Joseph wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Haitian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/07\/assassins-kill-president-of-haiti-in-midnight-home-invasion\/\">discovered<\/a> President Mo\u00efse shot to death on July 7 at his private residence in Port-au-Prince. Mo\u00efse was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-57766749\">found<\/a> with 12 gunshot wounds and one of his eyes reportedly gouged out when police recovered his body. The hit squad that allegedly killed Mo\u00efse has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/16\/u-s-military-confirmed-training-some-suspects-haiti-presidents-assassination\/\">tied<\/a> to various nations outside of Haiti, such as Columbia and the United States.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17121428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Suspects-assassination-Haiti-President-Jovenel-Moise-July82021-AP-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17121428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Suspects-assassination-Haiti-President-Jovenel-Moise-July82021-AP-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Suspects in the assassination of Haiti&#039;s President Jovenel Moise are displayed to the media at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday. (AP Photo\/Joseph Odelyn)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Suspects in the assassination of Haiti\u2019s President Jovenel Moise are displayed to the media at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. (AP Photo\/Joseph Odelyn)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSamir Handal was detained at the Istanbul airport on Sunday night after arriving on a Turkish Airlines flight. Handal, a businessman and builder from Haiti, had been living in Miami [Florida] after the July 7 killing of Mo\u00efse,\u201d <em>Newsweek<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/miami-resident-latest-suspect-detained-connection-haitian-president-moises-assassination-1649700\">relayed<\/a> on November 16, citing a report by the&nbsp;<em>Miami Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHandal has allegedly been connected to Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 62-year-old Haitian doctor and South Florida resident who is also accused of being involved in the assassination,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17038454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Haiti.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17038454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Haiti.jpeg\" alt=\"Haitian police control the area next to a painting of Haiti&#039;s President Jovenel Moise next to his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Mo\u2018se was assassinated after a group of unidentified people attacked his private residence, the country interim prime minister said in a statement, Mo\u2018se&#039;s wife, First Lady Martine Mo\u2018se, is hospitalized, interim Premier Claude Joseph said. (AP Photo \/ Joseph Odelyn)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Haitian police control the area next to a painting of Haiti\u2019s President Jovenel Moise next to his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo \/ Joseph Odelyn)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSanon, the doctor that Handal allegedly was connected with, was arrested just two days after Mo\u00efse\u2019s death at a home where private meetings were reportedly held in the months before the president\u2019s murder,\u201d the <em>Miami<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Herald<\/em>&nbsp;recalled. \u201cPolice found several personal items of Handal\u2019s at the residence, including three Palestinian passports bearing his name, and a checkbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haitian police have arrested over 40 suspects in connection with the assassination of Jovenel Mo\u00efse, \u201cincluding 18 former Colombian soldiers and numerous Haitian police officers,\u201d <em>Newsweek<\/em> reported on Tuesday. Several other suspects in the killing remain at large. One such suspect, Joseph Badio, previously served as Haiti\u2019s Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti\u2019s investigation into the assassination of Mo\u00efse has been bogged down by numerous hindrances. The plagued probe has led to the firing of Haiti\u2019s justice minister and the chief public prosecutor of Port-au-Prince, while the first judge assigned to oversee the criminal investigation resigned in August citing the mysterious death of his assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourt clerks who were helping investigate the killing also have gone into hiding after receiving death threats if they didn\u2019t change certain names and statements in their reports,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/jamaica-arrests-colombian-as-suspect-in-haiti-assassination\/\">observed<\/a>&nbsp;October 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities detained Samir Handal, a \u201cperson of great interest\u201d for his alleged connection to the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mo\u00efse, on Sunday at Istanbul Airport, Turkey\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}