A Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire while landing in Haiti

A plane from the American airline Spirit Airlines received shots were fired this Monday when he landed in the capital of Haiti and ended up evacuating to the city of Santiago, in the neighboring Dominican Republic.the company reported in a statement.

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Spirit Airlines Flight 951 had departed from Fort Lauderdale, in southeastern Florida, heading to Port-au-Prince, a city that has been subject to a wave of gang violence for months.

According to a statement from the airline, after the arrival of their plane at the Haitian airport, An inspection revealed damage to the device consistent with gunshots..

The flight attendant who suffered minor injuries is being treated by medical personnel, the company added in its statement.

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Spirit Airlines took the impacted plane out of circulation and is preparing another aircraft so that its personnel can return to Fort Lauderdale this Monday.

The company canceled its flights to Cap Haitien, in the north of the Caribbean nation, and Port-au-Prince, pending evaluation of the security situation.

According to the American newspaper Miami Herald, the Port-au-Prince airport authority grounded all planes as a result of the incident.

The American airline American Airlines also decided to suspend its flights between Miami and Port-au-Prince until Thursday, as indicated in a statement sent to AFP.

Haiti has been suffering for months from a wave of violence unleashed by powerful gangs who control more than 80% of Port-au-Prince.

At the end of February, these armed groups managed to paralyze the Toussaint Louverture international airport after a series of attacks against key infrastructure in the capital.

Tension waiting for inauguration

Haiti is under political tension this Monday waiting for businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aime to take office as the country’s new prime minister after the dismissal of Garry Conille and amid the announcement by armed gangs that violence will increase from today .

On Sunday it was known that eight of the nine members that make up the Presidential Transition Council (CPT) had signed a resolution last Friday appointing Alix Didier Fils-Aime as prime minister and that today would be published in the official newspaper, Le Moniteur.

The only one who did not sign that document was Edgard Leblanc Fils, who was the first person to occupy the rotating presidency of the CPT after its entry into operation last April, a position now held, since October 7, by Leslie Voltaire.

It was up to Smith Agustin to fill that position, but it was decided that Voltaire would take it after the state Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC) requested that a “public action” be launched against him and the members of the Louis Council. Gerald Gilles and Emmanuel Vertilaires for prosecution for abuse of office, payment of bribes and passive corruption.

Precisely, according to local media, The presence of these three people accused of corruption in the CPT is one of the causes of the conflict that exists between that Council and Garry Conille.

This and Conille’s refusal to carry out a ministerial restructuring would have been the causes of his dismissal and replacement by Alix Didier Fils-Aime.

Following the inauguration today of Alix Didier Fils-Aime, everything seems to indicate that the new Government will be sworn in on Tuesday and the first Council of Ministers will be held on Wednesday.

Problems between the authorities and within the Transitional Presidential Council have become common in Haiti.