Police in Haiti detain key suspect in President Jovenel Moise’s slaying

Haitian police caught and arrested a former official from the justice ministry. They believe this person is responsible for planning and commanding the killing of President Jovenel Moise.

Joseph Felix Badio was caught while leaving a supermarket parking lot in the main city, Port-au-Prince.

In 2021, Mr. Moise was killed in his bedroom by hired attackers from Colombia. Many of them have been caught or died.

When he died, Haiti faced a long political problem and lots of crime happened, which it had never experienced before.

In just a few months, bad guys took control of the city, including important things like its buildings and a place where fuel is stored.

Mr Badio is being accused of telling people to hurt someone. He is being accused of killing someone, trying to kill someone and stealing with a weapon.

According to the local news, Mr. Badio was fired from his job in the justice ministry a few months before the assassination because it was believed that he took a bribe to set a prisoner free.

Some of the hired killers who were arrested a few hours after the murder claimed that Mr. Badio, who is 60 years old, had instructed them to carry out the crime.

Other people involved in the case have been found guilty in the United States. Some of the people involved are John Joel Joseph, who used to be a senator in Haiti, and Rodolphe Jaar, a businessman from Haiti and Chile.

The US has also blamed Antonio Intriago, a Venezuelan-American man who runs a security company in Florida called CTU Security, for hiring the assassins. He is accused of planning to either kill or kidnap someone.

Haiti’s government, which was not elected, has been facing difficulties in providing essential services ever since Mr. Moise passed away.

According to a recent report from the United Nations, gangs have gained power over a large portion of the capital city. They are in charge of schools and clinics, but they also scare and harm the people living there and engage in conflicts over territory.

Many Haitians have left their homes in Port-au-Prince because there is a lot of violence. Many people have died this year already.

The UN recently approved sending a group of international troops to help the police in Haiti. However, not many countries have sent their own soldiers yet, and the plan has not happened yet.

Kenya was given approval this month to lead a team of many countries to help bring back order.