2024-02-09 19:31:33
A Haitian-American accused of participating in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was sentenced Friday in Florida to life imprisonment.
Joseph Vincent, 58, was on trial in federal court in Miami. Initially arrested in Haiti, he was extradited in January 2023 to the United States to answer for this assassination.
Jovenel Moïse was shot dead by an armed commando on the night of July 6 to 7, 2021 in his private residence in Port-au-Prince, without his bodyguards intervening. His death further aggravated the chaos in this small Caribbean country.
American justice then launched proceedings once morest 11 people accused of being involved in the assassination, on the grounds that the plot had been hatched in Florida.
Four of them were sentenced to life in prison, including Joseph Vincent who pleaded guilty in December. On Friday, he appeared in a prison jumpsuit.
According to the daily Miami Herald, the convict had in the past worked as an informer for the US federal drug trafficking agency (DEA).
The other defendants sentenced to life imprisonment in this case are a former Haitian senator, Joseph Joel John, a businessman, Rodolphe Jaar, and a retired Colombian soldier, German Rivera.
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