Tuesday following the arrest in the afternoon of 3 young from Curtis, by agents of the Departmental Unit of Maintenance of Order (UDMO) Pepage Pierre aka "Ti sam" launched an ultimatum in the microphones of journalists of Petit-Goâve "if the authorities of Petit-Goâve do not release next Monday the 3 youth arrested in Curtis, we will be worse than Ben Laben and no one will be able to take the National road #2. We demand immediate and unconditional their release. Why the forces have chosen to arrest the innocent ? So that we are So that and they know where we are [...] This is not to the innocents that they had to taken as a target. They had to attack us. If our claim are not taked into account, we will shoot at anyone trying to cross the National Road #2."

In addition, the Chief of the rebels reaffirmed in its declaration "Us the rebels, we were abandoned by Deputy Thimoléon. We voted for him in the elections," adding "on the one hand, the deputy has appealed for calm, he invited us to disarm and to seek the path of dialogue, what we do not refuse. On the other hand, he sending agents UDMO [...] we will properly respond to any attack. We will defend and retaliate properly. We are determined to go through... We were ready to dialogue with local authorities, however, the arrest of these 3 young irritates us. We're not going back. We will continue the fight."

On Wednesday, agents of the UDMO and Minustah soldiers backed by armored vehicles were deployed on the National Road #2 nd gave a demonstration of force to the rebels, who had time to evaporate in nature with their weapons.

A situation to follow...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9471-haiti-security-ti-sam-chief-rebel-of-curtis-launched-an-ultimatum-to-the-authorities.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9462-haiti-security-the-deputy-thimoleon-appealed-for-calm-and-denies-rumors.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9452-haiti-security-users-of-the-national-2-launch-sos-to-police.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9408-haiti-security-new-tensions-in-petit-goave.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9358-haiti-security-heavily-armed-individuals-impose-their-law.html

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)