What is known?
As of early this week, little could be said with absolute certainty about the murder save that, at some point during the night of 7 July, the Haitian president, Jovenel Moïse, was shot and killed at his home in the hills above the capital, Port-au-Prince, during an attack in which his wife, Martine, was severely injured. Even the official timeline, which puts the attack at 1am, has been questioned.
The official version
According to Haitian investigators two dozen mercenaries, including two US-Haitian citizens and several Colombians stormed Moïse’s villa, pretending to be a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid. Moïse was shot up to 12 times and the house ransacked. In the hours that followed, several alleged attackers were killed or captured, some at the Taiwanese embassy…
