Clash at the border with violent Haitians
One hooded Haitian was killed and another was injured after they crossed the border to throw rocks and bottles full of gasoline at members of the Armed Forces. The Haitians protested that the government was building a gate around a Customs Agency building in Carrizal, Elías Piña on the border with Haiti, as reported by the Ministry of Defense. The Dominican military fired in self-defense and to defend Dominican territory.
As reported, on the Haitian side of the border, Haitians were burning tires and affecting the Friday market day as part of protests demanding that Haitian President Jovenel Moise resign. But then the protestors crossed the border. Dominican soldiers fired in self-defense after two of the Haitians crossed to Dominican territory and threw rocks and a bottle of gasoline at Colonel José Manuel Durán Infante, director general of the Cuerpo Especializado de Seguridad Fronteriza Terrestre (Cesfront).
In a press release, Defense Minister Rubén Darío Paulino Sem lamented what had happened and said a special commission head by Ministry of Defense inspector general Edmundo Félix Pimentel, and general commander of the Army Estanislao Gonell Regalado, would investigate and present a detailed report. The army says that the Haitians had been congregating at the site with a hostile attitude, but then they crossed the border and began to shoot and throw stones at the Dominican soldiers.
Last week, Enrique Ramírez, director of the Customs Agency, announced the DGA is building multi-agencies at several points of the border to ensure greater control and security in commercial transactions at the border. He says the DGA checkpoints are coordinated with the Haitian authorities.
Elías Piña senator Adriano Sánchez Roa said that the hostility of the Haitians is because they oppose the construction of the gate around the Customs Agency. The gate seeks to better organize trade on the border.
Source: DR1, Listindiario
Mar 20, 2019
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