Haiti arrests top security chief in Moise murder investigation

Police say they arrested head of Jovenel Moise’s security as part of ongoing probe into the July 7 assassination.

Haitian police have arrested the head of Jovenel Moise’s security team as part of the ongoing investigation into the president’s July 7 assassination. Security chief Jean Laguel Civil is suspected of involvement in the plot that saw Moise killed at his home in the middle of the night by armed commandos who bypassed the president’s guards without firing a shot. Civil has been placed in solitary confinement at a prison in Delmas, near the capital, Port-au-Prince.