09/07/2021
According to New York Post The hit-squad members who assassinated Haiti’s president had been meticulously planning the operation for around a month — although they only meant to arrest him, not kill him, according to new claims revealed Friday.
A judge investigating Wednesday’s slaying of President Moïse at his home in Port-au-Prince told the New York Times in an interview that he had spoken with the two American suspects who were arrested with 15 other people and that they revealed new information about the murder.
The American suspects, James Solages and Joseph Vincent told Judge Clément Noël that they had met with other members of the murder squad at a ritzy hotel in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, over the past month to plan the attack, the Times reported. The pair maintained that the group did not intend to kill Moïse but instead sought to simply arrest him, Noël told the Times.
Solages and Vincent also claimed to have acted just as translators for the hit squad, which included a number of Colombians who spoke Spanish, according to the report. The men told the judge they had found the job in a posting online.
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