Yesterday Tuesday, the metropolitan area and North woke up with a strong police presence in the streets, following the violent incidents during Monday's demonstrations and the ransacking of several polling stations in the North https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-16363-haiti-news-electoral-zapping.html

A presence that has not intimidated several thousand people who took the concrete to the call of the G8 and the opposition forces to continue to demand among other things, the withdrawal of the presidential decree convoking the people to elections Sunday, January 24.

This demonstration was marred by violent incidents causing panic especially at Delmas, Nazon Lalue Bois-Verna and the city center. An officer of the Corps of Intervention and Maintenance of Order (CIMO) was injured after be subjet to stone throwing and at least one protester was apprehended. Vehicle windshields were broken, vehicles torched, streets of the capital were blocked by barricades of burning tires, dumpsters, rocks and branches and several clashes between demonstrators and police force have been reported.

Police had to repeatedly use tear gas to disperse demonstrators particularly violent, who tried to block one of the the major axes of Port-au-Prince and throw stones at the police.

Particularly violent slogans were launched by leaders of small groups such as "kill Opont", "kill Martelly" taken up by the crowd of protesters... Individuals defied anyone to vote Sunday, calling to out the weapons to prevent the elections on January 24...

Following these violence Pierre-Richard Casimir, the Minister of Justice has reacted strongly in a statement "The Ministry of Justice and Public Security condemns the numerous acts of vandalism and violence during the last 72 hours, during street demonstrations in both the capital and the north of the country.

The Ministry so that no one ignores, reminds all organizers of events on public roads, the obligation they have by law to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of their movements.

The police and the prosecuting authorities have therefore been instructed to apprehend and prosecute any individual that will makes disorder by attacking the life and property of others [...]"

HL/ HaitiLibre