Haiti assassination investigation muddied by death threats and roadblocks, internal documents reveal
CNNPort-au-Prince, Haiti CNN — There was no mistaking the meaning in last week’s anonymous text message: Do what we say or die. “Hey clerk, get ready for a bullet in your head, they gave you an order and you keep on doing shit,” read the July 16 text, one of several death threats sent to court clerks assisting Haiti’s investigation into the murder of former President Jovenel Moise, according to official complaints filed with Haitian police and seen by CNN. Barred from the crime scene Mural of Moise outside his residence in Port au Prince David van Blohn for CNN Official revelations about Haiti’s investigation into Moise’s brutal assassination still don’t quite add up. “I’ve never heard of anybody impeding a judge and their clerks from going into a crime scene,” said Brian Concannon, an expert in the Haitian legal system. Justice Ministry documents dated July 8 show that judicial officers were summoned to document two suspects’ corpses outside a police station in the hilly upscale neighborhood of Petion-Ville, where the president’s residence is also located.