Haiti - FLASH : 7 individuals linked to the group «Phantom 509» arrested
The Central Direction of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) presented 7 individuals arrested on May 11 near the Inspectorate General of the National Police of Haiti (IGPNH) during a demonstration by a group of individuals claiming to be of the armed extremist group "Phantom 509". These individuals threw stones at Swatt agents stationed near the building housing the IGPNH.
Commissioner Michel-Ange Louis Jeune, Spokesperson for the PNH said that among those arrested was Pierre Yvon, a former police officer, dismissed from the institution for abandoning his post, sentenced in May 2004 for homicide and then escaped from the national penitentiary in February 2005...
The Departmental Section of the Western Judicial Police (SDPJ/West) informs that it has already identified several other people belonging to the 'Phantom 509' Group, informed Michel-Ange Louis Jeune "[...] These are mostly active police officers, police in the process of dismissal or quite simply dismissed police officers" stressing that a wanted notice had been launched against the former dismissed police officer Jules James Josué, active member o "Phantom 509" wanted for armed robbery, assassination, arson and conspiracy against the internal security of the State.
The spokesperson of the PNH, specified that the Director General ai of the PNH, Rameau Normil, has already instructed all the central and departmental directors of the PNH in order to take all the measures in order to put out of harm's way everything individual participating in acts of vandalism at the level of public institutions in the country.
