Four Years On, Martissant’s Crisis Becomes the Status Quo for Officials

Four years after criminal groups invaded Martissant, ten presidents of the Republic, four prime ministers, and three directors general of the National Police have succeeded one another at the head of the Haitian state. None of them has made a difference. This emblematic neighborhood, which connects the capital to four other departments, remains a "no man’s land." Since then, like the collapse of a house of cards, nearly all the other neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince have fallen under the control of gangs.

Robenson Geffrard
Par Robenson Geffrard
02 Jun 2025 | Lecture : 3 min.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Armed groups from Village-de-Dieu and Grand-Ravine go to war with the Tibwa gang for control over Martissant. They unleash violence on the local population. Murders, rapes, homes and businesses set on fire—gangs shoot at anything that moves. In the streets, dogs and pigs feed on bullet-ridden bodies. The police officers from the local substation, also under attack, flee the area, abandoning the population to its fate.

In large numbers, residents of Martissant flee the area in panic, first taking refuge

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