“Davy, Natalie and Jude Montis were shot dead by a gang at around 9pm tonight. “We are all devastated,” Mission Haiti Inc reported on Friday, May 24, after the young people were attacked by two gangs in an orphanage located in Lizon 49, north of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital and a city that since the beginning of March 2024 It is under gang control.
This triple homicide occurs in a context of renewed violence by criminal gangs at a time when the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission is announced.
The deployment of the mission was authorized by the United Nations (UN) on October 2, 2023, however, the lack of a government, added to the friction generated by the creation of the Transitional Presidential Council, have delayed that foreign forces can intervene in the nation.
Biden and Ruto meeting
Hours before the murder, the presidents of Kenya and the United States had a conference, where the Kenyan president, William Ruto, promised to end the gangs in Haiti.
While President Joe Biden expressed his deep gratitude to Ruto for the upcoming deployment of Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti, according to an Associated Press report.
Although the US nation will not send forces to the violence-stricken Caribbean country, the United States has agreed to contribute $300 million to a multinational force that will include 1,000 Kenyan police, but Biden argued that the presence of US troops in Haiti would raise “everything.” “types of questions that can be easily distorted.”
Source: Agencies
