The American YouTuber and streamer YourFellowArab was kidnapped in Haiti at the middle of March.
He traveled to that country to try to interview Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, leader of the G9 criminal gang and the main person responsible for the riots that have caused an unprecedented crisis in the Caribbean nation.
According to Haiti24, Addison Pierre Maalouf traveled from Atlanta to interview Chérizier, but members of the criminal gang 400 Mawozo kidnapped him 24 hours after his arrival in Port-au-Prince, the capital.
The criminals would have acted by direct order from “Barbecue” and had demanded 600 thousand dollars for his release.
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Before moving to Haiti, Maalouf wrote “Going on another one of those trips. If I die, thanks for seeing what I posted. If I survive, all the glory to God.”
Last Saturday his release was announced.
I can’t give any more details until I’m home, but all I’ll say for now is: Glory to God. Released between Good Friday and Easter, Christ is King,” he continued.
In his story he stated that he was kidnapped in the “Haitian desert”, 60 minutes from any civilization, in a concrete hut surrounded by barbed wire, and that from there he prayed to God.
The YouTuber, who has more than a million subscribers on the platform, was used to making videos with a high level of danger, going into areas of Mexican cartels and Brazilian favelas.