“There are enough compromising elements … to prosecute Henry and ask for his outright indictment,” prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude wrote in the order.

Haiti’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country.

The order filed by Port-au-Prince prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude came on the same day that he had requested Henry meet with him and explain why a key suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse called him twice just hours after the killing.

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“There are enough compromising elements … to prosecute Henry and ask for his outright indictment,” Claude wrote in the order.

A spokesman for Henry could not immediately be reached for comment.

Claude said the calls were made at 4:03 and 4:20 a.m. on July 7, adding that evidence shows the suspect, Joseph Badio, was in the vicinity of Moïse’s home at that time.

Badio once worked for Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and at the government’s anticorruption unit until he was fired in May amid accusations of violating unspecified ethical rules.

In the two-page document, Claude said the calls lasted a total of seven minutes and that Henry was at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince at that time. He also noted that a government official tweeted last month that Henry told him he never spoke with Badio.

Source: Haiti prosecutor asks judge to charge prime minister in president’s slaying

Officers killed four suspects and arrested two others in theassassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 53,  The Washington Post reports. The attack on the president, which took place in the early morning hours on Wednesday, July 7, and also resulted in injuries to his wife, has heightened the political and safety crisis that was already plaguing Haiti.

Haiti’s Communications Minister Pradel Henriquez didn’t identify any of the suspects in the case when speaking to The Post, but he referred to them as “foreigners.’”

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The Post Reports:

The motivation for Wednesday’s overnight attack is currently unknown. Moïse dissolved parliament in January 2020 and ruled by decree as opponents and protesters demanded that he step down. Armed gangs with unclear allegiances have seized control of growing portions of the country, terrorizing the population with kidnappings, rapes and killings.

Robert Fatton, a politics professor and expert on Haiti from the University of Virginia, spoke to The Post about the possible motivation behind Moïse’s assassination and how it could have happened. “He had obviously many enemies,” he said. “There might have been some degree of complicity on the part of those protecting the president.”

Source: Police Kill Alleged Assailants Suspected of Assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moïse