Haiti’s chief prosecutor reportedly sought an indictment on Tuesday to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
Port-au-Prince prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude also asked a judge to bar Henry from leaving the country, Reuters and The Associated Press reported.
“There are enough compromising elements … to prosecute Henry and ask for his outright indictment,” Claude wrote in the order.
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Henry represents a flight risk and thus should be “forbidden from leaving the national territory by air, sea or road due to serious presumption relative to the assassination of the president,” the prosecutor wrote in a letter to Haiti’s Migration Services.
President Moïse was assassinated on July 7 in what was called a “highly coordinated” attack on his residence, the country’s acting prime minister confirmed in a statement.
Phone records show that suspect Joseph Badio called Henry twice in the hours after the 1 a.m. killing, according to the prosecutor.
Those calls were made at 4:03 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. by Badio not far from the scene of the crime, Claude added.
The telephone calls lasted for a total of seven minutes as Henry was staying at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince at that time, according to Claude’s court document cited by AP.
A representative for Prime Minister Henry declined immediate comment, Reuters reported.
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