by Ronny Reyes at The Daily Mail
A judge and two legal clerks investigating the assassination of the Haitian president have been forced to go on the run after receiving death threats.
Justice of the Peace Carl Henry Destin and clerks Marcelin Valentin and Waky Philostene say the threats began rolling in hours after the killing of former premier Jovenel Moise on January 7.
They were repeatedly ordered to remove sworn testimony of two witnesses from their investigation documentation – and forced to go into hiding as the threats ramped up. The clerks received a text warning that failure to comply with orders to tamper meant they’d get ‘a bullet in your head.’
‘There are great interests at play that are not interested in solving this case,’ Valentin told the New York Times. ‘There’s no progress, no will to find the truth.’
He added: ‘This is an exceptional case. But it is being conducted in the same system of impunity and corruption as all the others…
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