Authorities said that an armed group of "professional killers," consisting of more than two dozen people, including two US citizens and retired members of the Colombian military are among the assassins of Hait's President Jovenel Moïse.
The assassins claimed to be DEA; spoke a mix of Spanish & English with a US accent. Haiti's government says highly trained foreign attackers involved. All borders & airports tightly shut.
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Local police published on Friday names of 19 suspects, who were arrested by the authorities, and said that they included 17 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, and an additional Colombian suspect.
A State Department said that it is aware of the arrests of two American citizens in Haiti in relation to the attack, adding that the United States is sending a team to investigate the matter.
On Friday, the Haitian government asked US forces, about 500 soldiers, to help protect infrastructure, ports, airports and energy systems in the wake of the assassination, fearing more potential mercenaries.
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Colombia's national police chief General Jorge Vargas announced during a press conference Friday that thirteen retired members of the Colombian army are believed to be involved in Moise's assassination, have traveled to Haiti over the past months - nearly all of them via the Dominican Republic.
"Giraldo Duberney Capador, who was killed during the chase, and Alejandro Rivera Garcia, detained by Haiti Police, flew from Bogota to Santo Domingo via Panama on May 6 and from Santo Domingo flew to Port-au-Prince on May 10," Vargas said.
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He added that several other detainees were Victor Albeiro Pineda, Manuel Antonio Grosso, John Jairo Ramirez, Alejandro Geraldo Zapata, Franco Castaneda, Angel Yaris Sierra, Carlos Guerrero, Francisco Uribe, John Jairo Suarez, and Enalbert Vargas.
The police chief said they flew from Bogota El Dorado airport to Punta Cana airport in the Dominican Republic on June 4 and entered Haiti via border on June 6.
"Another Colombian man, Mauricio Javier Romero was also killed by Haitian police, and his travel route remains unknown," he pointed out.
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Suspects in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse are presented to the media by authorities in Port-au-Price on Thursday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images[/caption]
"None of the 13 alleged perpetrators of the attack was on duty. Colombian police have identified four private security companies allegedly involved in the incident and investigations are ongoing."
It is noteworthy that attackers stormed on Wednesday the President's private residence in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Haiti's capital, shooting him 16 times, and his spouse Martine Moise was also shot, and evacuated to intensive care in a hospital in Miami.
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