The attorney general is asking the judge investigating the murder of Jovenel Moise to sue Prime Minister Ariel Henry over the case.
Haiti’s top prosecutor is seeking a lawsuit against Prime Minister Ariel Henry over July assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
Bed-Ford Claude, the governor-general of Port-au-Prince, who is acting as the state’s attorney general, on Tuesday asked a judge investigating the killings to charge Henry with a charge of phone calls made by Henry and one of his suspects.
Claude also called for Henry to be banned from leaving Haiti “because of the size of the revelations”.
“There are enough compelling reasons … to prosecute Henry and ask him to prosecute them,” Claude wrote in the ordinance.
There was no immediate comment by Henry, who was legally elected less than two weeks after his assassination.
Moses was he was killed in battle and gunmen at their home in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on July 7.
The massacre took Haiti, a country already struggling with political instability and sectarian violence, deep problems, burning fear among the inhabitants that violence is getting worse.
Claude’s order Tuesday came just days after he did so “He was called” Henry meet him to explain why he spoke to one of the suspects in the murder of Moses.
The prime minister one day later denied what he called “sanctification” aimed at sowing discord and preventing justice.
“The perpetrators, who plotted to assassinate President Jovenel Moise, will be identified, convicted and punished for their crimes,” he said. Henry said on Twitter on September 11.
On Monday, the Office of the Citizen Protection in Haiti, an anti-opposition organization, asked Henry to step down and urged him to appear at the prosecutor’s office as he had asked to disclose what had happened.
“We all want to know the content of this discussion,” said Renan Hedouville, who heads the office, according to Henry and Joseph Badio, refugees who have worked for the Haitian Ministry of Justice and for government bribery.
Badio was fired in May for allegedly breaking an unethical code of conduct.
In his two-page schedule, Claude said the calls took place between 4:03 and 4:20 a.m. July 7 and said the evidence indicates that Badio was near Moise’s house at the time.
The singing lasted seven minutes and Henry was at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince at the time, Claude added, noting that a government official posted on Twitter last month that Henry had told him he had not spoken to Badio.
“The prime minister cannot remain in office without removing the darkness,” Hedouville said. “He must get rid of all doubts.”
More than 40 suspects, including 18 former Colombian soldiers and three Haitian Americans, have been imprisoned in the meantime. Authorities are still searching for other suspects, including Badio and the former Haitian senator.
But many questions went unanswered about what happened. “The country is still searching for answers,” said Laurent Lamothe, who served as Haitian Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014. said Al Jazeera one month after his assassination.