PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders said yesterday his men would take to the streets in protest at the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, threatening to pitch the impoverished Caribbean nation deeper into chaos.
Jimmy Cherizier, an ex-cop known as Barbecue, who heads the so-called G9 federation of nine gangs, railed against police and opposition politicians whom he accused of colluding with the “stinking bourgeoisie” to “sacrifice” Moise.
“It was a national and international conspiracy against the Haitian people,” he said in a video address, dressed in khaki military fatigues sitting in front of a Haitian flag.
“We tell all bases to mobilize, to mobilize and take to the streets for light to be shed on the president’s assassination.”
