Soldiers stand guard near the residence of Claude Joseph in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 11, 2021, four days after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. [AP Photo]The director of Haiti’s National Police Academy was shot and killed at the doors of a police training facility in a gang-controlled neighborhood in the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian police said Friday night. It also comes as Haitian and international authorities grapple with how to control rampant gang violence in the Caribbean nation. Later in the evening, police spokesman Garry Desrosiers confirmed the killing, writing Rigaud was shot inside an official police vehicle as he was about to enter the police academy. The country’s crisis was deepened following the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which thrust the country into chaos.

Source: Daily Nation November 26, 2022 10:04 UTC