Martine Moise conspired with former prime minister Claude Joseph to kill President Jovenel Moise in order to replace him herself, judge says.
A Haitian judge in charge of the investigation into the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean nation’s last president has charged some 50 people, including his widow and a former prime minister, according to a document leaked to local media.
According to the 122-page document from Judge Walther Wesser Voltaire, made public by AyiboPost, the president’s widow Martine Moise conspired with former prime minister Claude Joseph to kill the president in order to replace him herself.
President Jovenel Moise was shot dead when armed men broke into his Port-au-Prince bedroom on the night of July 7, 2021, a raid that left the former first lady injured.
The judge’s order calls for the arrest and trial of those charged.
