Thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Haiti to denounce a surge in kidnappings and the lack of action by the government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry to protect the population from crime gangs.
The Caribbean nation has been under the sway of gangs for months, their influence extending far beyond the poor neighborhoods of the capital Port-au-Prince that spawned them.
«According to the alerts we receive, I’d say that between five and 10 people are abducted every day, with peaks sometimes of up to 20 a day,» said Marie-Rosy Auguste Ducena, an activist with the National Network for the Defense of Rights humans.
The region around the capital «has become a maze of crime,» she said
«We do not lead a normal life in Port-au-Prince. The people are totally paralyzed: it is a reign of fear», said Jean-Robert Argant, coordinator of the collective December 4, one of the organizations that called for demonstrations.
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220329-thousands-march-in-haiti-in-anger-over-surge-in-kidnappings
