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Haiti - DR : A Haitian smuggler killed by a Dominican soldier
27/02/2019 13:05:46

Haiti - DR : A Haitian smuggler killed by a Dominican soldier
Monday, following intelligence work on the presence of Haitian smugglers in Dominican territory, a military patrol composed of Corporal Aferson Duval Rivas and Rasa Villar Carmona caught in the area of ​​Paso Sena (Province of Pedernales, South-West) several Haitians transporting on on bikes and backpack animals bags full of Guaconejo wood clandestinely cut on the Dominican territory for the manufacture of perfume in Haiti (The Guaconejo is a plant sought for the essential essence it produces high monetary value entering the manufacture of perfume, a plant that has disappeared from Haiti due to uncontrolled cuts).

According to the military authorities domicaines, after ignoring the order to stop one of the approximately 35 years, still unidentified, allegedly attempted to seize the rifle M-16 of a military and was injured seriously and died at the scene of hypovolemic shock, according to the medical examiner

The Guaconejo wood traffic from the Pedernales forests to extract the essence needed to make perfumes in Haiti is a source of numerous incidents and seizures are frequent. At the beginning of January, 426 bags of Guaconejo had been seized https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26550-haiti-dr-anti-return-operation-3-767-haitians-intercepted-at-the-border-and-turned-back-to-haiti.html and more than 2,000 bags in 2018 https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23721-icihaiti-rd-partial-assessment-of-the-fight-against-haitian-smuggling.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26364-haiti-dr-seizure-of-more-than-5-000-bottles-of-contraband-alcohol-from-haiti.html

The two soldiers of the patrol involved in the incident are in custody pending the end of the ongoing investigation and the body of the Haitian will be handed over to the Haitian authorities.

See also :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26550-haiti-dr-anti-return-operation-3-767-haitians-intercepted-at-the-border-and-turned-back-to-haiti.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26364-haiti-dr-seizure-of-more-than-5-000-bottles-of-contraband-alcohol-from-haiti.html
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23721-icihaiti-rd-partial-assessment-of-the-fight-against-haitian-smuggling.html

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