For the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, two Colombians must pay millionaire compensation

In the United States, a federal judge in Miami issued a restitution order for millionaire compensation to the widow and eldest son of Jovenel Moïse, president of Haiti assassinated in 2021.

According to the opinion, six of those convicted of the assassination They will have to pay their relatives 6.2 million dollars. Among them are former Colombian soldiers German Rivera and Mario Palacios, both sentenced to life imprisonment.

In July 2021, 22 Colombian mercenaries broke into the house of the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, murdered him and forever marked the history of that country. A couple of days later, Martine Moïse, the then first lady and a miraculous survivor of the attack, told FBI agents about the death of her husband.

“She stated that the president previously spoke that he could be assassinated, but he expected it to happen after he left office,” indicated an FBI agent in an audio known exclusively to Noticias Caracol.

Around 1 a.m. on July 7, 2021, the squad of former Colombian soldiers entered the presidential house in Port-au-Prince.

She and her husband, the president, heard continuous and loud gunshots outside the residence and The president of that country looked at her and said: ‘Honey, we are dead,’ she added.

Martine Moïse and her husband were in their double room, on the second floor of the house: “The woman took the two children and took them to the bathroom downstairs. He told them to get into the shower, and he closed the curtains, closed the bathroom door and went back upstairs to his room.”