Details of the Wharf Jérémie Massacre

“My father, 76 years old, a Seventh-day Adventist, went to bed early after the opening of the Sabbath on Friday evening. Three men came for him around 10 p.m. They stabbed my father. His corpse was burned,” confided the child of one of the victims of the Wharf Jérémie massacre, on the shores of the Bay of Port-au-Prince. Reports vary from source to source. The most conservative estimates speak of more than a hundred deaths, the majority being elderly people accused by gang leader Micanor Altès of casting a spell on his child.

Roberson Alphonse
Par Roberson Alphonse
09 Dec 2024 | Lecture : 5 min.

Between the sea, the Port-au-Prince shipping terminal, Harry Truman Boulevard, and the sinister remains of Fort Dimanche — where torturers and henchmen executed opponents of the Duvalier regime — lies “Wharf Jérémie,” one of the precarious neighborhoods of the Cité Soleil commune that the state has lost control over. The weekend of December 6, 7, and 8, the gang leader who controls the neighborhood and the entire port area, Micanor Altès, alias “Wa Mikanò,” a mem

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