Tuesday morning, the National Police of Haiti held at the National Police Academy, the state funeral of police officer Jean Louis Tisson, gunned down during the attack of the police Station of Les Cayes on May 16 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17467-haiti-flash-an-armed-commando-attack-the-police-station-of-les-cayes.html

On this occasion Michel-Ange Gédéon, the Director General a.i. of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) issued this strong message "Tisson Jean-Louis was an exemplary police officer, with a ively temperament, fearless, brave and courageous. He had illustrated himself during the Operation Bagdad and always reassured his peers. He was like the Capois Lamort of his intervention brigades. Alone he could repel the fiercest opponents. The day he was to bid farewell to the earth, he was informed of gunfire from assailants who attacked the police station of Les Cayes, soon he changed course to counter their actions. Having seen them, he decided to confront them directly, stoically and heroically. It was then that the commandos shot him. He paid with his life his commitment and fell in duty.

Today his sacrifice is a lesson of patriotism for a body for an institution, for a country seeking a dignified people like Diogène carrying a lamp in broad daylight to find a man. He battled against the champions of national indignity.

This man is a perfect example of bravery and an excellent antidote against the indignity and individualism!

Police officers, the threat is still there, be careful !

Tisson as for you, go in peace, you filled weel your day you have your place among the greatest national heroes. We thank you.

May the earth rest lightly on you !"

Moreover, the President a.i. Jocelerme Privert in his remarks of circumstance declared "Tisson Jean-Louis is and remains a symbol, a symbol of courage, of the sense of duty and sacrifice. The Haitian nation, in all its components, will never forget the merits and qualities of this great patriot fell under the murderous bullets. The deceased police officer was awarded of the posthumous Grade of : Knight of the Order of Honour.

"Tisson Jean Louis was a model agent and will remain a symbol of bravery and duty. I honor the agent Tisson Jean Louis to testify to the police that their work is appreciated at the highest peak of the State [...]" "Your perpetrators will not go unpunished," declared Camille Junior Edouard, the Minister of Justice and Public Security.

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