The escaped gang leader was killed by the police while on the run
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In a prison in Haiti, the Caribbean, more than 400 inmates were jailbroken at once. In the process, 25 people, including the prison director, were killed.
According to the AP and AFP news agency on the 26th (local time), Haitian authorities said that more than 400 prisoners escaped the day before and have not yet been captured from a prison outside the capital Port-au-Prince.
A total of 25 people were killed in the process of shooting during the prison break, the authorities said, including the prison chief, six inmates, and civilians killed by prisoners. Before the jailbreak incident, 1,542 prisoners, twice the number of prisoners, were held in the prison, and about 60 inmates were arrested after failing to break out.
The exact course of the massive group breakout is not yet known. Nearby residents told the Associated Press that the inmates began jailbreaking after heavily armed bullies shot at the guards at the time. There are also suspicions that this breakout was to escape the notorious gang leader Arnel Josef. Josef, who was the top wanted target of the Haitian police, was arrested in 2019 on charges of murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault, and was imprisoned in this prison. The police said that Joseph, who successfully escaped from prison, was caught at a police checkpoint while fleeing on a motorcycle on the 26th, the next day, and was killed after an engagement. According to AFP, he had been jailbroken in 2010 and 2017, and attempted to jailbreak once in July of last year.
The prison in which this incident took place was built with Canadian capital and opened in 2012. In 2014, more than 300 prisoners were jailed as a group. Afterwards, correctional authorities announced that they would strengthen the prison security by increasing surveillance cameras, but they could not prevent another massive jailbreak. The largest jailbreak in Haiti’s history occurred in 2010, when 4,200 prisoners escaped from a prison in Port-au-Prince immediately after the earthquake of magnitude 7.0.
/ Reporter Kwak Yoon-ah [email protected]
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