Port-au-Prince (Haiti): Colombia's vice president said on Friday that the government is preparing a consular mission who will arrive in Haiti to help ex-Colombian soldiers accused of direct involvement in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Marta Lucía Ramírez also said the mission would help repatriate the bodies of those killed.
More than 20 suspects accused of direct involvement in the slaying have been arrested, the majority of the former Colombian soldiers. At least three other suspects were killed, and police have said they are still looking for at least seven others.
Colombia’s government has said only a small group of Colombian soldiers knew the true nature of the operation and that the others were duped. Ramirez said most of the people who arrived in Haiti "went to another mission, supposedly to support the Haitian security forces. They were deceived."
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Colombian Police Chief General Jorge Luis Vargas on Friday said a former Haitian government official told Colombians Duberney Capador and Germán Rivera that “what they have to do is kill the president of Haiti.”
Capador was killed in a shootout with Haitian police hours after Moïse was killed. Rivera remains detained in Haiti while police are still searching for Badio, who previously worked for Haiti’s Justice Ministry and then the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired in May.
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(AP)
