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Why France supports Haiti in its war against armed gangs

Le chaos, always more. A spiral of violence that nothing seems to be able to stop. A capital, Port-au-Prince, now 85 % in the hands of gangs. Drug trafficking, human beings, organs, extortion and kidnappings. Just for the year 2024, 5,600 killed and 1,500 kidnappings. A former police officer who has become a criminal, Jimmy Cherizier, decked out in a sinister nickname, Jimmy Barbecue. For what ? Because he surrounds his enemies with a tire to which he sets . A torture that he is far from being the only one to practice. At the head of a coalition of gangs ironically VIV Ansanm (Living together), he opposed political power head on.

A weakened power, off from the realities of an bloodless population, entrenched in secure and overprotected districts. But a population that …


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