The hunt has been unleashed with maximum violence in the streets of Haiti. The lynching of suspected criminals continued this Wednesday in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, in actions launched by residents of various neighborhoods who are said to be fed up with the uncontrolled violence imposed by the armed gangs that besiege the country.
Since Monday, not a day has gone by without more than a dozen suspected bandits being lynched, according to information circulating in the local media and for which the Police cannot give exact figures.
Numerous videos and photos circulating on social networks show clashes between police and gang members, as well as neighbors against bandits. But there are also videos with gang members tied up and burned.
In several messages that circulate through the networks, people ask the inhabitants of other neighborhoods to join this fight "without quarter" against the gangs that are taking their lives hostage in this Caribbean country.
The bandits are torn to pieces with machetes and then burned because according to some beliefs -due to some mystical protection- the bullets cannot kill them.
"Search for bandits" is the name given to this operation, which takes place in different parts of the capital.
Equipped with machetes, pieces of wood and knives, several dozen young people, most of them hooded, go into the nooks and crannies of their neighborhoods in search of suspected bandits.
It appears that many of the suspected bandits killed are armed individuals trying to establish their base in hitherto quiet areas in the heart of the capital.
Since Monday, when the hunt for the suspected bandits began, kidnappings have dropped dramatically in the country.
In this hunt for suspected criminals, the homes of many armed individuals have been ransacked, cars, jewelry, mystical objects and ammunition have been found.
In neighborhoods such as Canapé Vert, Debussy, Pacot and Turgeau, the inhabitants have erected barricades with tires, car wrecks, trees and stones to protect themselves from any new assault by armed criminal gangs who want to control these areas.
In other parts of the capital, the populations have replaced the police forces to search all the cars and people that pass by, demanding the occupants to get out to facilitate the operation.
In this operation to persecute armed gangs, the populations are accompanied by the Haitian National Police (PNH).
In a press conference offered this Tuesday, the institution reported that two alleged criminals were killed, 3 police officers injured and that weapons and ammunition were recovered, as a result of no less than 25 operations carried out since Monday.
During the press conference, the Police congratulated the population that is "working together with the institution" to "hunt down the bandits", while asking the population not to use violence.
"It is necessary that the inhabitants remain vigilant to protect their areas from unknown people who enter. We invite people to bring us all the material and take these people to the nearest police stations," said the Haitian police spokesman, Gary Desrosiers.
With the crisis in Haiti worsening by leaps and bounds, the UN Security Council agreed this Wednesday on the need to support the country immediately, but gave no sign of being able to unblock for now the dispatch of an international force to combat the armed gangs that terrorize the population.
According to the United Nations, the situation is increasingly pressing, especially after the recent sharp rise in violence that, for example, left 70 dead in just a few days, between April 14 and 19, in clashes between gangs. rivals in Cité Soleil, the largest shanty town in Port-au-Prince.
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