'It's hell': vigilantes take to Haiti's streets in bloody reprisals against gangs
Source: The Guardian
‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs
Members of terrorised Port-au-Prince communities armed with rocks and machetes carry out wave of lynchings
Tom Phillips and Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince
Sun 30 Apr 2023 11.15 BST
Last modified on Sun 30 Apr 2023 11.35 BST
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As the sun rose, the bloodshed spread. In the Canapé-Vert neighbourhood, 13 suspected gangsters were beaten, stoned to death and burned after their minibus was stopped by police. In Turgeau another six men were reportedly set on fire.
The violence continued on Tuesday as Canapé-Vert’s residents formed self-defence brigades and took to their barricaded streets with rocks and knives.
“We are planning to fight and keep our neighbourhood clean of these savages,” one vigilante, a 37-year-old called Jeff Ezequiel, told the Associated Press.
On Wednesday, as groups sprung up in other communities, another lynching was reported: this time, eight suspected criminals in the community of Debussy.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/haiti-port-au-prince-violence-gangs-police
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