{"id":8696,"date":"2024-07-02T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:21:13","slug":"haiti-police-retake-control-of-a-police-station-in-the-capital-that-was-attacked-by-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8696","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Police Retake Control of a Police Station in the Capital That Was Attacked by Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vantbefinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG-20240512-WA0080-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"><\/p>\n<p>Officers regained control of a police station in Haiti\u2019s capital that had been the target of armed gangs in recent months, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The station in Gressier, located in the western tip of Port-au-Prince, was most recently attacked on Sunday in an assault that killed an unknown number of civilians, Lionel Lazarre, spokesperson of a police union said. The armed groups burned houses in the area, causing panic within the community, he said.<\/p>\n<p>One bus driver was attacked and then shot by gunmen while he was working, Lazarre added.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes days after hundreds of&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kenya-police-haiti-gangs-deployment-293b5a3d34253c3875856589e8841503\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;to help release the country from the tight hold of armed criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed armed men storming the police station as they railed against Haiti\u2019s government and the Kenyan police officers. They also showed a fire blazing in front of the station, which gunmen mostly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>A similar attack in Gressier took place in May&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/haiti-gang-attack-gressier-gresye-4420aa9dd4a1a08f3f0b65bd0d676f85\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">when civilians and police officers were calling for the dismissal and arrest of the police chief<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;as heavily armed gangs seized control of the same police station. The attack caused widespread panic and left people homeless as gangs rampaged through the community.<\/p>\n<p>Gangs have raided more than two dozen police stations in Port-au-Prince and assaulted since late February when they launched coordinated attacks targeting critical state infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Evens Sanon, AP News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers regained control of a police station in Haiti\u2019s capital that had been the target of armed gangs in recent months, authorities said Monday. The station in Gressier, located in the western tip of Port-au-Prince, was most recently attacked on Sunday in an assault that killed an unknown number of civilians, Lionel Lazarre, spokesperson of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vantbefinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG-20240512-WA0080-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Haiti Police Retake Control of a Police Station in the Capital That Was Attacked by Gangs","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}