Chief of Police's Home Looted and Burned Down

Bandits attacked and set fire to the residence of the Director General of the Haitian National Police (PNH) located in the Cul-de-Sac plain, in Santo. The residence of the Director General of the PNH, Frantz Elbé, was attacked and set on fire on Thursday, March 14, 2024, a source close to the police headquarters told the newspaper as videos circulated on social media. "The incident occurred this morning [Thursday, March 14]. The house was unoccupied," continued the source, who noted that this attack on DG Elbé's residence "is the culmination of a series of slanderous attacks, verbal assaults on social media and in the press carried out against the Director General by individuals with political motives." "The police is a republican institution that still resists those who seek political power through arms. It is also these people who targeted the director general," said the source. Since February 29, more than a dozen police stations and sub-stations have been attacked as part of coordinated actions by armed gangs spreading terror. Six policemen were killed at the Bon Repos sub-station, more than 5,000 inmates escaped after attacks on the civil prisons of Port-au-Prince (national penitentiary) and Croix-des-Bouquets. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was attacked as well as the port. This Thursday, looting incidents were reported in several areas of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.