More than 3,500 prisoners escaped from two maximum security prisons in Haiti

Haitian criminal gangs achieved the release of more than 3,500 prisoners in two maximum prisons security of that country.

At least a dozen people died after the attack on the civil prison in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.

The criminals freed nearly 3,600 major criminals during his assault on the prison, on the night of March 2.

This figure represents at least 97 percent of the total number of inmates (3,696), reported this March 3 by the Collective of Lawyers for the Defense of Human Rights (CADDHO).

The press confirmed that in the surroundings of the prison bodies of at least ten peoplesome of them torn apart by dogs.

So far, the Government has not commented on the situation although a national emergency and curfew have already been declared in much of the country.

On the street, reports suggest that the Police, who seem to be regaining control of the situation, have collected several bodies in the streets.

Haiti, during the nights it has lived moments of extreme violence of which members of armed gangs are participants.

Crossing of bullets between police and criminals

Intense clashes between the gangs and the Police and the entry of armed groups into the civil prison, the largest prison in Port-au-Prince, were the tone.

On social networks there are videos in which you can see how the head of the Village de Dieu gang, Izo, monitors the National Penitentiary and the National Palace of Haiti using sophisticated drones.

According to the versions circulating on the networks, the next objective of the armed groups would be precisely the National Palace.

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The gangs are using the networks to reveal their plans to take control of all State institutions, with the aim of overthrowing the Government.

For now, there is no news of the return to the country of Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, after attending the Caribbean Community (Caricom) summit in Guyana and his subsequent trip to Kenya.

In that African country he tried to send to Haiti the multinational security support mission led by that African country and approved by the UN in October.

Kenya and Haiti signed in Nairobi a bilateral agreement requested by the courts of the African country to allow the deployment of a contingent of a thousand police officers of that nationality.

Since Thursday, violence has increased in Haiti, after the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Phillip Davis, assured that his Haitian counterpart, Ariel Henry, had committed to holding elections before August 31, 2025.

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