Wife Of Assassinated Haitian President Says Killers Did Not Allow Husband Talk

The widow of slain Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, who was critically wounded in the attack that claimed his life, on Saturday issued her first public statement since the brutal murder, calling on the nation not to “lose its way.”

 

In an Audio message posted on her official Twitter account three days after her husband was shot dead in their home , 

Martine Moise said...

“I am alive, thanks to God, I am alive but I have lost my husband Jovenel

In the blink of an eye, the mercenaries entered my home and riddled my husband with bullets … without even giving him a chance to say a word,” 

“I am crying, it is true, but we cannot let the country lose its way,

We cannot let his blood to have been spilled in vain.

I will not abandon you''

The authenticity of the remarks, made in Creole, was confirmed to AFP by Haiti’s minister of culture and communications, Pradel Henriquez.

Martine Moise was rushed to a Haitian hospital after the attack in the early hours of Wednesday, before being evacuated to Miami for treatment.

According to Haitian authorities, an armed commando of 28 men — 26 Colombians and two Haitian-Americans — burst in and opened fire on the couple in their home.

So far, 17 have been arrested, and at least three were killed. A handful remain at large, police say. No motive has been made public.

Her husband’s killing has plunged already troubled Haiti — the poorest country in the Americas — into chaos.

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