[News] Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is buried

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https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/presidente-de-haiti-sepultan-al-asesinado-jovenel-moise-605246

The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, assassinated on July 7 by an armed group in his private residence in Port-au-Prince, was buried this Friday in his hometown, Cap-Haitien, in the north of the impoverished country.
The burial took place after a mass and ceremony in the gardens of the Habitation Village SOS, the private residence of the Moïse family on the outskirts of Cap-Haitien, attended by the first lady, Martine Moise, who was injured in the attack, the children of the couple, the prime minister, Ariel Henry, officials, relatives and supporters of Jovenel Moïse.
The remains of the ruler were buried in the family pantheon.
His coffin, covered by the national flag and the presidential sash, was displayed in a flower-adorned esplanade. The remains were guarded by soldiers of the Armed Forces of Haiti.
The city of the Northern Department of Haiti was relatively calm in the morning, after a day of tensions on Thursday, and the police were generously deployed in the streets.
The president was shot dead at his residence in Port-au-Prince in the early morning of July 7, in an attack by an armed commando made up of ex-Colombian military personnel that entered the presidential home without encountering resistance from the guards, who should have protected the life of the president.
The president's widow, Martine, who was seriously injured in the night attack, arrived at the wake in rigorous black, in the middle of a security device, to the ceremony that was also attended by her children, the prime minister, Ariel Henry, and officials. of the government.
By intervening in the civil ceremony, she Martine called for justice for the assassinated president, whom she, she assured, "was abandoned and betrayed."
"You were brutally murdered. He has conspired against you. They hated you, they threw poison at you," she said, visibly upset.
She stated that "the birds of prey" that killed her husband on July 7 "are still running through the streets. They are not even hiding. They are there watching us and listening to us."

Moise received twelve bullet wounds during the attack that killed her on Wednesday, according to the justice of the peace in charge of the forensic report.
Representatives of foreign delegations, the diplomatic corps and members of the government took turns offering their condolences to her family, in an open funeral that could be seen by the mourners from large screens displayed around.
US President Joe Biden sent a high-level delegation to the funeral, including his ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and his new special envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote.
So far, 26 people have been arrested, including 18 Colombians, mostly retired military personnel, as well as 2 Haitian policemen and 6 civilians, some of them with dual US citizenship.
Among those arrested is Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian doctor living in the United States who, according to Haitian authorities, is the mastermind of the operation that killed Moise.
Three other Colombians died in shootings with the Haitian Police that took place in the two days after the crime.
At least 10 suspects are at large, including 5 Colombians and 5 other Haitians, the latter accused of participating in the planning.