Four more suspects behind the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021 are to appear in a federal court in Miami, Florida, United States on Wednesday.
Haitian-American dual citizens James Solages, 37, and Joseph Vincent, 57, Colombian citizen German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 44, and Haitian-American Christian Sanon, 54, were transferred from Haiti to the US to face charges of conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the US, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The four bring to seven the number of suspects in the assassination of Moise, with the others already charged by the DoJ and facing up to life imprisonment.
Sanon is being considered as the mastermind of the killing.
The DoJ said Sanon recruited about 20 Colombians with military training and led by Rivera Garcia to help carry out the assassination.
The Colombian squad shot Moise dead on the night of 6 to 7 July 2021 in his private residence in Port-au-Prince.
“On July 6, 2021, Solages, Vincent, Rivera and others met at a house near President Moise’s residence, where firearms and equipment were distributed and Solages announced that the mission was to kill President Moise,” the department alleged.
US law is being applied in this case because the plan to kill the Haitian president was allegedly partly organized on US soil in Florida, by American-Haitian nationals, Agence France-Presse reported.