Haitian citizen beaten to death by four police officers
Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Léon Charles, the Director-General of the Haitian National Police (PNH), gave an update "on the unfortunate incident that occurred" in Ouanaminthe, during what should have been a patrol of the Departmental Unit for Maintaining Order (UDMO). A young man, 31-year-old Peguy Siméon, married and father of two children, died in atrocious conditions during what turned out to be a particularly violent intervention by police officers.
Peguy Siméon had been deported from the Dominican Republic and, without money, was trying to join his family in Saint-Raphaël by settling on the roof of a bus of pilgrims who were worried and alerted the police.
The police finally dislodged Peguy Siméon from the roof by throwing him off the top of the bus before hitting him severely on the ground in an incomprehensible outburst of violence. Urgently transported to a hospital in Ounaminthe, Peguy Siméon did not survive his injuries.
Reacting to this barbaric act, the videos of which have gone viral on the internet, the Office for the Protection of the Citizen expresses its indignation following the violent death of Péguy Siméon on Sunday, May 9 in Ouanaminthe and demands a rapid investigation into this file and requests that sanctions be taken against the perpetrators of this blatant case of human rights violations.
Fritz Saint-Fort informs that the responsibilities will be fixed, specifying that the PNH does not provide the police with baseball bats as seen in the video images, the use of which will be an aggravating circumstance, stressing that in addition to administrative sanctions, there will have criminal penalties since there was a death of a man.
Fritz Saint-Fort, the Divisional Commissioner and Departmental Director of the Haitian National Police of the North-East, recognizes "that the victim until proven guilty was neither armed nor represented an imminent threat endangering the life of agents. He explained that the measures were taken after realizing the report of the police officers involved did not correspond to reality after watching a video showing the beating. He said the four (4) police officers identified on the video were put in isolation in Cap-Haitien while other police officers present are being questioned.
For its part, the General Directorate of the PNH, which qualifies this incident as "regrettable", denounces such actions which tarnish the image of the institution, specifying that the General Inspectorate of the North automatically seized the file, that four (4) police officers were placed in isolation and 3 others in precautionary measures while waiting for their files to be transferred to the Government Commissioner for the Jurisdiction of Fort Liberté for legal proceedings.
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