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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haitian-residents-lynch-set-fire-suspected-gang-members-2023-04-24/
Haitian residents lynch and set fire to suspected gang members
Haitian police said on Monday that at least 10 suspected gang members had been lynched and their bodies burned by residents of Port-au-Prince.
Haitian police spokesperson Gary Desrosiers said the group of armed bandits had been traveling in a vehicle in the capital and that police had intended to arrest them.
Separately, he said notorious crime boss Carlo Petithomme was dead, without giving any details. Petithomme went by the alias Ti Makak and led a gang of the same name.
The lynchings followed days of confrontations between gang members and security agents.
Photos by Reuters and video circulating on social media show several bodies piled in the road, with smoking tires and other objects on top of them. People surround them, shouting angrily. One person can be seen beating the lifeless bodies with a blunt object.
Gangs in Haiti have grown in strength since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, with residents caught in the middle as large portions of the capital and much of the countryside have become lawless.
The security situation has deteriorated further in recent months, with routine gun fights taking place between police officers and the gangs. Bloody turf battles have left hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
Desrosiers said the anger of the population was understandable "but the collaboration we are seeking must be done without violence."
Criminal groups control about 80% of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, where some 200 gangs operate with impunity, according to estimates.
Haiti's government and top United Nations officials have called for an international force to support the Haitian police in their struggle against the gangs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html
Moment 'gang members' beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones them and burns them alive among petrol-soaked tyres in the streets in Haiti
At least 19 men were killed in Port-au-Prince on Monday in two separate attacks
Video showed mob piling tyres on the suspected gangsters before lighting them
This is the horrifying moment suspected Haitian gang members beg for mercy before a vigilante lynch mob stones and burns them alive.
The mob beat and burned 13 men to death with gasoline-soaked tyres on Monday after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince said.
Six more burned bodies were seen in a nearby neighbourhood later on in the day, and witnesses claimed to have seen police kill them before residents set them on fire. News agencies said this could not be verified.
Haiti's National Police said in a brief statement that officers in the city's Canape Vert section had stopped and searched a minibus for contraband.
The officers confiscated weapons from suspects before they were 'unfortunately lynched by members of the population', the officials said. The statement did not elaborate on how members of the crowd were able to take control of the suspects.
The horrific vigilante violence shows the level of public anger over the increasing lawlessness in Port-au-Prince.
Criminal gangs have taken control of an estimated 60 per cent of the city since the July 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moïse.
A witness who gave his name as Edner Samuel told reporters that members of the crowd took the suspected gangsters away from police, beat them and stoned them before putting tyres on them, pouring gasoline on top and burning them.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw 13 bodies burning in the street.
Two videos shared on social media appeared to show the moments before and after the tyres were set alight above the group of men.
The first video showed the suspected criminals lying on the floor with tyres piled on their backs. One man appeared to lift his head, but as he did so was hit by a stone.
Others were seen lying still face down, seemingly trying not to attract attention to themselves, while one man appears to be pleading with an armed officer.
Police officers were seen standing guard, but showed little sign of trying to protect the men from the mob. One of the officers is shown stamping on one of the suspected gang members to prevent him from standing.
The second video, taken from further away than the first, shows thick black smoke billowing up from a pile of tyres and bodies as flames burn.
The fires drew hundreds of onlookers in the hilly suburb of the city, many of them holding their noses amid the fumes. Pictures showed several bystanders looking horrified, while others appeared to be taking photos.
Mr Samuel said the suspects were believed to have been heading to another area to join a group of gangsters battling police.
Another witness, Jean Josue, said there had been a lot of gunfire in the area since the early morning.
The situation in the capital remained tense, and shots could be heard ringing out from several neighbourhoods.
In the nearby area of Turgeau, a few minutes drive from Canape Vert, witnesses said police had killed six gang suspects in a shoot-out, and that local residents dragged the bodies from where they fell to a central location and set fire to them.
An AP reporter saw the six burned bodies. Police did not release any statements about the violence in Turgeau.
Acting president Ariel Henry tweeted that his government expresses its sympathy with police officers injured in recent operations.
'I applaud the considerable and meritorious efforts of the national police to restore order and peace in our cities and neighbourhoods,' he tweeted.
'There is still a lot to do.'
Witnesses at the scene said the suspects were believed to have been members of the Kraze Barye gang, which translates as 'Breaking Barriers'.
The violence started before dawn, when gang members burst into several residential areas of the capital, looting homes and attacking residents, witnesses said.
'It was the sound of projectiles that woke us up this morning. It was 3.00am, the gangs invaded us. There were shots,' a Turgeau local told AFP news agency.
'If the gangs come to invade us, we will defend ourselves, we too have our own weapons, we have our machetes, we will take their weapons, we will not flee,' said another resident.
'Mothers who want to protect their children can send them elsewhere,' he added.
In fact, dozens of families left the neighbourhoods caught in the spiral of violence on Monday, AFP journalists confirmed. Men, women and children fled the scene on foot, carrying a few personal belongings in bags or bundles.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/epsteins-newly-released-calendar-includes-planned-meets-with-cia-chief-college-head-and-former-white-house-counsel/
New Jeffrey Epstein docs reveal pedophile met with CIA chief, former White House counsel — after his child sex crime conviction
The list of Jeffrey Epstein’s possible connections now includes America’s spy chief, a college president and a former Obama White House counsel, according to a collection of previously unreported documents that included the convicted sex offender’s schedules.
The trove of papers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, show meetings between Epstein and several prominent people, including three with William Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, when he was the deputy secretary of state in 2014. These prominent people have not been accused of any wrongdoing, and have all maintained their connections with Epstein were purely professional or social.
None of the names appeared in Epstein’s “black book” of contacts, the Journal reported, or in the flight logs of passengers who traveled on his private jet.
It’s also not clear what the purpose of each meeting was, or if every appointment actually happened, the paper said.
Epstein, a registered sex offender, brokered the meetings after he served time in prison in 2008 for a sex crime involving a teenage girl, the report said.
The documents show Noam Chomsky, the author, activist and professor, was scheduled to fly with Epstein and have dinner at his Manhattan home in 2015.
Leon Botstein, the longtime president of Bard College, met Epstein several times and even invited him to the campus, according to the Journal.
Kathryn Ruemmler – who served as White House counsel under President Barack Obama – met with Epstein dozens of times in the years between her White House career and her next job as an attorney at Goldman Sachs, the report said.
Epstein had also planned for her to be on two trips with him: a 2015 visit to Paris and a 2017 journey to his private island in the Caribbean, according to the Journal.
Most of the people included in the thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017 told the Journal that they met with Epstein because of his wealth and connections.
Some said they thought he had been rehabilitated. Others said they had more personal aims – Botstein said he was trying to get Epstein to donate to his school, while Chomsky said he wanted to discuss political and academic subjects with the well-connected financier.
Epstein has been a lightning rod for intrigue, controversy and conspiracy theories since he hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
A repeat offender, Epstein had been accused of sexually abusing girls in Florida, some as young as 14 years old. He cut a deal with prosecutors in 2008 and pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. Under a secret agreement, the US Attorney’s office in Miami agreed not to pursue federal prosecution.
Epstein served about 13 months in a cushy work-release program that allowed him to leave jail and go to his office during the day.
The case torpedoed Epstein’s reputation – several politicians sent back his donations, and clients and banks cut ties with him, the Journal said.
In 2019, the feds charged Epstein with sex trafficking conspiracy after the Miami Herald reported that dozens of women claimed he abused them. But he killed himself before he could go to trial.
Following a trial in Manhattan federal court, a jury in December 2021 convicted Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell of several crimes, including sex trafficking of minors, for helping him groom girls and women to abuse. The British socialite was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but is currently appealing the case.
Despite his death and her conviction, questions still remain about who in Epstein’s famous circle of friends and associates may have done illegal things in his presence. And it has also led to a variety of conspiracy theories that claim Epstein was murdered because of who he had dirt on.
Burns, the 67-year-old CIA chief, met with Epstein about 10 years ago when he was looking to leave the government, CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp told the Journal.
“The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector,” she said. “They had no relationship.”
But Burns, a career diplomat, had several scheduled meetings with Epstein in 2014.
Through Thorp, Burns said that he remembered a mutual friend introducing them in Washington, and that he also met Epstein once in New York.
“The director does not recall any further contact,” Thorp said.
Ruemmler had a professional relationship with Epstein because of her job at Latham & Watkins, a law firm, according to a Goldman Sachs spokesman.
Epstein appeared to know Ruemmler, the former White House counsel, fairly well, according to the Journal.
He visited apartments she thought about buying, knew her travel plans at times and planned meetings to introduce her to his friends after she left the White House in 2014.
Ruemmler didn’t see anything suspicious at his Upper East Side townhouse, the Goldman spokesman told the Journal.
Although the two continued to meet for the next few years, Ruemmler never visited his island in the Caribbean or flew anywhere with him, the spokesman added.
“I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein,” Ruemmler said.
Epstein also met with a variety of other people, such as Ariane de Rothschild, chief executive of the Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group; Joshua Cooper Ramo, former co-chief executive of Henry Kissinger’s corporate consulting firm; and Chomsky, the linguistics professor who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chomsky and Epstein had a number of scheduled gatherings, including a planned dinner with Chomsky, his wife, Woody Allen and Allen’s wife, Soon-Yi Previn, according to the documents.
The Journal asked Chomsky about his relationship with Epstein, to which he replied: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
Botstein, who has been president of Bard College since 1975, also had about two dozen meetings scheduled with the financier over about four years, the Journal reported.
“I was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support,” Botstein told the paper. “That was my relationship with him.”
Botstein invited Epstein to an opera at Bard in 2013, then a concert in 2016. Botstein had hoped Epstein would support the school’s musical endeavors – but it was not to be.
“He presented himself as a billionaire, a really, really rich person,” Botstein said. “I found him odd and arrogant. And what I finally came to believe, which is why we stopped contact with him, is that he was simply stringing us along.”
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