There has been no improvement in security in the metropolitan region but the clashes have decreased in intensity. The armed groups were pushed back in their offensive at the beginning of March against police infrastructure and strategic sites in the city center of Port-au-Prince in particular.
The gangs, retreating into their hideouts, have multiplied the traps serving as ambushes. Experts report that the gangs have managed to dig pits in the roads which they cover with planks before installing paving stones.
These traps aim to immobilize and destroy armored vehicles.
No statistics are available but at least ten armored vehicles were destroyed.
These materials cost more than $800,000 per unit, comments Mr. Ashley Laraque, deploring that FADH soldiers are not integrated into the security system.
He points out that the machines of the Engineering contingent are still available while the heavy machines of other institutions have been stolen.
The Canadian ambassador notes that the violence has decreased somewhat in intensity since the presidential transitional council took office in early May.
However, the gangs control almost all of the districts of the metropolitan region where they have installed toll booths.
Furthermore, the criminal network involved in the theft of goods trucks has strengthened.
At the start of the week, the police arrested, in Grand Anse, a manager from Casec whose company was used to sell products stolen by the 5 seconds gang from Village de Dieu.
LLM / radio Métropole Haiti
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