In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday unidentified individuals claiming to be of the opposition have ransacked the offices of the Gonaïves Public Prosecutor's Office breaking down furnitures, doors and windows and taking away various equipment...

In addition, protesters were joined by armed individuals from Raboto a particularly sensitive locality... These individuals, some of whom brandished weapons of war (M1 and M4) marched in the streets of Gonaïves with the demonstrators, to demand the resignation of the President Jovenel Moïse, chanted hostile remarks to the ruling power, shooting in the air and sowing panic in the population.

In addition, angry protesters threw stones at the premises of the Departmental Delegation of Artibonite they tried to burn...

This armed violence in Gonaïves is more and more visible and worries more than one in front of the apparent passivity of the police... Remember that mid-September heavily armed individuals attacked the residence of Me Ariol Cinéus, magistrate at the Court of Appeal of Gonaïves. His son Ariol Junior Cinéus was wounded by three bullets during this attack...

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