- After Jovenel Moise was assassinated, Jean Laguel Civil, the head of the Haitian Security Service, was arrested.
- He was held in solitary confinement in a prison in Delmas.
- Twenty Colombian mercenaries were arrested.
Haitian police said on Monday that they arrested Jovenel Moise’s security chief as part of an ongoing investigation into the July 7 assassination of the president.
Security director Jean Laguel Civil is suspected of being involved in a plot to kill Mois by armed commandos at his home in the middle of the night, who bypassed the president’s guards without shooting.
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Civil has been held in solitary confinement in Delmas Prison near Port-au-Prince.
Police spokesman Marie Michelle Verrier said: “I can confirm that Jean Laguel Civil was arrested by the police on Monday as part of the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.”
Port-au-Prince Commissioner Bedford Crowder has ordered the immigration authorities to ban four police officers responsible for the security of Moise from leaving the country.
The police also issued an arrest warrant for Wendelle Coq Thelot, the country’s Supreme Court judge who was fired by Moise on Monday.
The details of the assassination are not yet known, but the newly appointed Prime Minister Ariel Henry has promised to bring the murderer of Moise to justice.
The police arrested about 20 Colombian mercenaries as part of what they said was a conspiracy organized by a group of Haitians with foreign ties.
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