A suspect in the July murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse died while being transferred from preventive detention to a hospital after experiencing symptoms of Covid-19, his wife said on Wednesday.
Gilbert Dragon, 52, a former police commissioner, died of cardiac arrest, said Marie Leslie Noel, adding that she spent two weeks trying to get him transferred to a hospital and fought to get him to get a diagnostic test for Covid-19 in time. .
“I finally got permission to bring him to the hospital this afternoon, and he died on the way,” Noel said. “I’ve been struggling to get it out for two weeks.”
Haiti’s Interior Minister Liszt Quitel did not respond to a request for comment.
The Haitian National Police said in an August report that Dragon had contacted other suspects on the night of Moise’s July 7 murder and had attended meetings to plan the action.
Noel said that her husband was wrongfully arrested and that he was sleeping at his house the night the crime took place. She said Dragon went to talk to investigators on his own after hearing that the police were looking for him.
“I was very impatient for the trial because I wanted to see what evidence they had,” she said.
Haiti has already made more than three dozen arrests, including a group of ex-Colombian military personnel, in connection with the investigation into Moise’s murder.
Turkish authorities have arrested another suspect, Samir Handal, in Istanbul, Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph said last Monday.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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