Remember that Wednesday at the Chamber of Deputies, the Deputy Arnel Bélizaire, physically assaulted in the presence of several parliamentarians, the Minister Delegate Phélito Doran, Head of Relations with Parliament.

The Deputy Arnel Bélizaire that does not negate the aggression, considering it is a reply to an unfulfilled promise by the government. He accuses the Minister Doran to have blocked a total of 200,000 gourdes, which had been assigned to each deputy, to organize activities during the last Carnival (2 to 4 March 2014), amount he would never have received according to him. An unjustified accusation, since at the time Phélito Doran was neither Minister nor responsible for public funds.

Minister Doran explained that beyond aggression, Deputy Bélizaire uttered death threats accompanied by all sorts of insults against him and wondered on what would have happened without the presence of other deputies, noting that the Deputy Bélizaire was armed.

Minister Dorant hoped that the Chamber of Deputies take disciplinary action under Article 247 of the internal regulations for this act will not go unpunished. stressing that the President of the Lower House, Jacques Stevenson Timoléon had acted responsibly by apologizing on behalf of the Chamber of Deputies.

Statement by Minister Phélito Doran

An act condemned with the utmost rigor by the government https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11455-haiti-flash-belizaire-physically-assaults-a-minister-the-government-condemns.html who recalled that "that the deputy Bélizaire is arepeat offender who repeatedly had behavior contrary to the dignity of a parliamentarian systematically violating the laws of the Republic," stressing hat immunity does not cover ordinary crimes committed by a Deputy. "Immunity does not mean impunity. That is why the Government of the Republic requests the Chamber of Deputies to consider, in urgency, on the requests for waiver of immunity produced by the justice to the Chamber of Deputies."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11455-haiti-flash-belizaire-physically-assaults-a-minister-the-government-condemns.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11360-haiti-justice-deputy-belizaire-sow-terror-in-the-streets.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-10805-haiti-justice-the-minister-of-justice-asks-the-lifting-of-the-immunity-of-deputy-belizaire.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-10800-haiti-justice-the-deputy-belizaire-at-the-head-of-an-armed-commando-subtracts-9-individuals.html

SL/ HaitiLibre