JAKARTA - Haitian police on Friday, July 30, unveiled new charges against a former chief justice for his involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise earlier this month. Police said the suspect had met with a group of Colombian mercenaries accused of killing Moise. Moise's murder has pushed the poorest country in the Western hemisphere into a deeper brink of chaos. A manhunt is underway across the Americas to find the killers and the mastermind behind them. Haiti police previously issued an arrest warrant for Wendelle Coq-Telot.
She is a woman, a former chief justice who was ousted along with two other judges in February when Moise alleged that there was a coup plot against her. Coq-Thelot was not identified and could not be reached for comment. A group of Colombian mercenaries and several Haitian Americans arrested after Moise's murder confessed to having met Coq-Thelot, said Inspector General Marie Michelle Verrier, spokeswoman for the Haitian National Police.
"Some of them indicated that they had been at Mrs. Coq's house twice," Verrier told reporters. "These people gave police details of documents signed at the meeting at Mrs. Coq's house." Police have searched Coq-Thelot's residence, as well as his other homes in the countryside, Verrier said. Many questions remain unanswered about who was behind the killings and how the killers got into the presidential residence. Haitian police blame a squad of mostly mercenaries, three of whom have been killed by police. A senior security official in Moise's government was arrested on Tuesday, July 27 for alleged involvement. Previously, Colombia asked Haiti to guarantee the legal and medical rights of 18 Colombians detained on the Caribbean island for allegedly participating in Moise's murder.
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