Victim of an assassination attempt investigative journalist Willy Jean-Louis and influential member of a political party

Victim of an assassination attempt investigative journalist Willy Jean-Louis and influential member of a political party

Victim of an assassination attempt, journalist Willy Jean-Louis. On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., de Vries hailed as a "national hero"

Targeted by gunfire outside a television studio, journalist Willy Jean-Louis. De Vries is still fighting for his life. Known for his work on unsolved cases, his role as a witness or expert in political and judicial cases would have made him the target of certain criminals

life Wednesday evening May 17, 2023 in a hospital in the provincial city of Jacmel (St Michel Hospital) it was around 9:30 p.m. he would be returning home after participating in a political debate show, he had been targeted by gunfire in a street in downtown Jacmel, when he had just left the television studio of a social political show where he had appeared as a guest.

This 35-year-old man who grew up in a religious family in Jacmel, in the suburbs of the provincial city, made a name for himself as an intrepid journalist specializing in political affairs for the popular daily De Haïti presse.

"We condemn in the strongest terms this assassination attempt on a journalist who is only doing his job," said Pauline LECARPENTIER, Secretary General of the Human Rights Office in Haiti. "The authorities must react immediately by opening an investigation to identify and punish the perpetrators and by ensuring the safety of the journalist and his family. Willy Jean-Louis has gained 27 places in the World Press Freedom Index just published by DHPI, and must continue in this direction by ensuring the exercise of free and secure journalism in the country." Asked by Haiti Monde info

Pierre Richard Jean declares as a neighbor and witness to this scene he mentioned "during the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023 around 9:30 p.m. while I was at my home located at #35, Rue blockos, Jacmel/Haiti, I heard noises of arguments and screams coming from the home of my neighbors, Willy Jean-Louis and his wife Herlande Jean-Marc. Shortly after I heard violent blows on the walls and detonations that I identified as gunshots. I then looked out my window and saw several individuals attacking my neighbors' house by throwing stones and also saw Mrs. Herlande Jean-Marc come out of the house and try to calm the attackers unfortunately her efforts were in vain and she was even the victim of a stone thrown, then I saw Mr. Willy Jean-Louis come out in turn, and it was At that moment I saw the attackers hit him with a machete and terrified by the violence of the scene, I stayed at my window until the arrival of the Haitian National Police".

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