Haiti - FLASH : Failed escape attempt by Arnel Joseph
Thursday July 23, 48 hours after announcing in a video posted on social networks that he would soon be free, Arnel Joseph the former Gang Leader of the Village of God (South of Port-au-Prince) arrested in July 2019 in Lumière de Bonne-Fin hospital, a few kilometers from the city of Les Cayes (South Dept.) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28309-haiti-flash-the-dangerous-gang-leader-arnel-finally-captured-by-the-pnh.html tried to escape from the prison of Croix-des-Bouquets where he was imprisoned.
Taking advantage of the absence of the guards busy providing access to showers to inmates, he forced the lock of his cell and went to the roof of the penitentiary center where he tried to hide. However, thanks to the joint intervention of penitentiary officers and police officers from the Commissariat de Croix-des-Bouquets, Arnel was quickly found, subdued and returned to his cell, putting an end to his escape attempt and his dream of freedom...
The coordination of the Press and Public Relations of the National Police of Haiti vigorously denies the information which suggests that Arnel Joseph would have escaped and specifies "Indeed, there was an attempt to escape, but the detainee was turned back to his cell."
