One of the eleven charged in the assassination of the Haitian president pleaded guilty for the first time in federal court in Miami this Friday, March 24. In the hope of a reduced sentence, this former Haitian drug trafficker admits having financed the commando of Colombian paramilitaries who carried out the murderous raid against the presidential palace of Haiti on July 7, 2021.
With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson
Before the federal court in Miami, Rodolphe Jaar, 50, admitted everything: the weapons and ammunition provided to the commando, the financing of the stay in Haiti of these Colombian paramilitaries before their murderous raid against the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. . But that’s not all: Rodolphe Jaar also admits having corrupted members of the presidential security so that they facilitate the access of the assassins to President Moïse on the night of July 7, 2021.
This former Haitian drug trafficker had also met the conspirators in Miami in order to prepare the assassination of the Haitian president. Arrested in the Dominican Republic and then extradited to the United States in January 2022, Rodolphe Jaar faces life imprisonment. But by pleading guilty, he hopes to reduce his sentence to 30 years, maybe less. He is the first of eleven defendants in the United States to plead guilty. Jaar has also worked with investigators to consolidate the charges against them. His sentence will be known on June 2. As for the ten other defendants currently detained in the United States, their trials are due to begin next May.