Haiti police fire rubber pellets at mourners as protests resume
The demonstrations calling for President Jovenel Moise to step down continuePORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitian police wary of renewed unrest after days of nationwide protests fired tear gas and rubber pellets on Friday to disperse about 200 protesters and mourners carrying the casket of a man killed last week in anti-government riots. Police confronted the march near Haiti’s National Palace, scattering wailing relatives and chanting neighbors who left the casket on the ground next to a smoldering gas canister. “There is no work in Haiti and the government does nothing to help,” he said. The injured man, Davidson Metellus, 35, said they would retrieve the casket left behind near the National Palace. “Even if there is only one of us left, we’re going to carry him to his grave,” said Metellus.
Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2019 01:18 UTC
