{"id":1189301,"date":"2022-01-05T02:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189301"},"modified":"2022-01-05T02:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:19:44","slug":"haitian-prime-minister-says-he-survived-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haitian-prime-minister-says-he-survived-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian Prime Minister Says He Survived Assassination Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fhaitian-prime-minister-says-he-survived-assassination-attempt%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=1189301&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\">Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry survived an assassination attempt by unidentified gunmen on Saturday during an official event commemorating the nation\u2019s independence in the northern Haitian city of Gonaives, Henry\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/violence-caribbean-haiti-gangs-0a446ead51ce2dde18165f6b168b8ffd?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">told<\/a> the Associated Press (AP) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Haitian prime minister\u2019s office told the AP on January 3 a group of \u201cbandits and terrorists\u201d shot at Henry on January 1 as he exited a church <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrArielHenry\/status\/1477298696014471172\">hosting<\/a> the ceremony. The armed men reportedly attempted to penetrate a security team escorting Henry out of the building while \u201chiding\u201d behind the church\u2019s walls. The attackers also allegedly \u201cthreatened\u201d the church\u2019s bishop by \u201csurrounding\u201d the house of worship, according to Henry\u2019s office.<\/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[embedded content]\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s spokesman described the suspects\u2019 actions as \u201cintolerable,\u201d adding that Haitian police had issued arrest warrants for the attackers. Haiti\u2019s National Police told the AP on January 3 its forces had \u201csecured the area\u201d in Gonaives in which the attempted assassination took place on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H6-p-Wf1CWI\">killed<\/a> and several others were wounded in the shooting targeting Prime Minister Henry according to a January 2 report by the leftist Latin American propaganda outlet TeleSUR. Henry was unharmed in the attack. TeleSUR described an exchange of fire between \u201cmembers of an urban gang\u201d and Prime Minister Henry\u2019s security detail, citing local Haitian media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe person [victim of the shootout], whose identity is unknown, was killed in the middle of the shooting between members of an urban gang in the Raboro sector [of Gonaives] and the security forces that protected Henry and other officials,\u201d TeleSUR relayed.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti\u2019s prime minister referred to the incident in a statement posted by his official Twitter account on January 2 in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrArielHenry\/status\/1477628094244704264\">thanked<\/a> the bishop of Gonaives for presiding over the January 1 Haitian Independence Day Mass \u201cdespite the tense situation that reigned in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrArielHenry\/status\/1477774272844161040?cxt=HHwWoICz8eP3jYIpAAAA\">alluded<\/a> to a plague of violence currently prevailing throughout Haiti in a separate statement dated January 1 and posted by his Twitter account on January 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, our enemies, the enemies of the Haitian people, are the terrorists who do not hesitate to use violence to kill people with all their might, or to kidnap, take away their freedom, to rape them. And do everything for money,\u201d the leader wrote in Haitian Creole.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Henry was forced to abort a speech he was scheduled to recite on January 1 in&nbsp;Gonaives following the alleged attempt on his life. He previously canceled a planned trip to Gonaives in January 2020, also to mark the anniversary of Haiti\u2019s independence from France, amid threats of violence against him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prior to the January 1, 2022, attempt on Henry\u2019s life, a local gang boss in Gonaives \u201chad made threats against Henry in local media,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/haitian-pm-survived-assassination-attempt-weekend-pms-office-2022-01-03\/\">reported<\/a> on January 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHenry has pledged to crack down on gangs that authorities have blamed for a spike in kidnappings and for blocking gas distribution terminals in a move that caused a severe fuel shortage in recent months and prompted the U.S. and Canada to urge its citizens to leave Haiti,\u201d the AP noted on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17946618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/wi\/ap\/14\/haiti-president-slain-july-20-2021-file-photo-haiti-designated-prime-minister-ariel-henry-center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17946618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/haiti-president-slain-july-20-2021-file-photo-haiti-designated-prime-minister-ariel-henry-center-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this July 20, 2021 file photo, Haiti\u2019s designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry, center, and interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, right, pose for a group photo with other authorities in front of a portrait of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise at the National Pantheon Museum during a memorial service for Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo\/Joseph Odelyn, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Henry was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/haiti-ariel-henry-sworn-in-as-new-prime-minister-13-days-after-assassination-of-president-jovenel-moise-12360280\">sworn in<\/a> as prime minister of Haiti on July 20, 2021, less than two weeks after the country\u2019s former prime minister, Jovenel Mo\u00efse, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/jovenel-moise-haitis-embattled-president-killed-at-53\/\">assassinated<\/a> by a group of unidentified mercenaries on July 7, 2021. Much remains unknown about the circumstances surrounding Mo\u00efse\u2019s killing. Haitian security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-57766749\">discovered<\/a>&nbsp;Mo\u00efse\u2019s lifeless body \u2014 reportedly with&nbsp;\u201c12 bullet wounds and a gouged eye\u201d \u2014 at his personal residence in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. An investigation into the incident led by Haiti\u2019s government remains ongoing, though it has encountered various setbacks. Haitian authorities say a foreign hit squad of at least 28 mercenaries, including former Colombian soldiers, were <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/07\/16\/haiti-assassination-colombia-us-military\/\">involved<\/a> in the assassination of Mo\u00efse, 53.<\/p>\n<p>Bed-Ford Claude, a Haitian public prosecutor assigned by Haiti\u2019s government to investigate&nbsp;Mo\u00efse\u2019s killing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/09\/15\/haiti-pm-fires-prosecutor-seeking-charges-against-him-in-moise-killing\/\">named<\/a> Prime Minister Henry as a suspect in the investigation in September 2021. Claude said telephone records prove Henry conducted two telephone conversations with a key suspect in Mo\u00efse\u2019s killing, former Haitian Justice Ministry official Joseph Felix Badio, in the hours immediately following Mo\u00efse\u2019s killing on July 7, 2021. Claude wrote to Judge Garry Or\u00e9lien, the judge presiding over the probe, on&nbsp;September 14, 2021, and asked him to charge Henry as a suspect. The prosecutor told Or\u00e9lien there was enough evidence to order Henry\u2019s immediate indictment. Prime Minister Henry fired Claude within hours of the letter\u2019s receipt by Judge Or\u00e9lien, with Henry officially claiming to have relieved Claude of his public prosecutor duties for \u201cserious administrative faults.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry survived an assassination attempt by unidentified gunmen on Saturday during an official event commemorating the nation\u2019s independence in the northern Haitian city of Gonaives, Henry\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-1189301","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\/1189301","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=1189301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189301\/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=1189301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}