Michel Martelly, who served as president from 2011 to 2016 and now lives in Miami, is accused, writes Gazette Haitifor abusing his power to facilitate the trafficking of cocaine” in collaboration with Haitian traffickers who contribute to the emergence of armed gangs that sow terror in the country “. A role.” important and destabilizing in the continuation of the crisis “as he played” with other members of the corrupt elite », writes the US Treasury Department in its press release – taken up by News list.
Today, explain Gazette Haiti” The United States, in cooperation with its international partners, seeks to dismantle the criminal networks that fuel the violence in Haiti “. And indeed, last year a group of UN experts accused the former president of using gangs to seek to expand his influence, recalls Miami Herald. And even, according to the investigators’ sources, to have created one of these armed groups, Base 257.
In the past, Washington has taken sanctions against Haitian gang leaders and politicians. But Michel Martelly is the most important personality, writes New York Timesto appear publicly on a US sanctions list – it had already been sanctioned in 2022 by Canada. The news, writes Miami Heraldhad the effect of a political bomb in Haiti: Prime Minister Garry Conille immediately organized an emergency meeting of his cabinet.
But, recalls the daily Florida, Michel Martelly has already been accused of drug trafficking: in 2010, when he was a presidential candidate, after the earthquake. But explain Miami Herald” At the time, the United States, which had grown weary of President René Préval, supported Martelly and forced Préval to withdraw his candidate Jude Célestin. The controversial election and the subsequent political crisis are widely seen as the starting point for the current crisis “. Today, the Treasury Department’s sanctions against Michel Martelly prohibit US financial institutions from any transactions with him and freeze his assets under US jurisdiction.
” Yes, she can »
In the United States, the second day of the Democratic Convention in Chicago. And the Obamas” electrified “the Democrats with their speeches, headlines Washington Post : the couple confirmed that ” the same sense of excitement and hope that marked their own ascent to the White House now surrounded Kamala Harris “. Barack Obama delighted the public by repeating his most famous slogans, saying Politicaltransforms his famous ” Yes, we can » (yes, we can) to “Yes, she can”, referring to Kamala Harris.
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The Democratic candidate who says New York Timeswas 130 kilometers away, at a meeting in Milwaukee. Firstly, it was a show of force to hold two such large gatherings at the same time. Then it was a grab for Donald Trump: She took the stage in the arena where he accepted the Republican nomination last month. Finally, and above all, Milwaukee is the largest city in a key state, Wisconsin, whose specter, Politico explains, haunts the Democrats: In 2016, Hillary Clinton narrowly lost this state where she had not campaigned: ” a serious mistake that Kamala Harris does not want to repeat “.
Former Nazi concentration camp secretary convicted
In Germany, the Federal Court of Appeal upholds the sentence against the former secretary of a concentration camp, the concentration camp Stutthof, today the Polish city of Gdansk. Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people. She received a two-year suspended sentence, writes Die Weltwhich states: The case was particularly controversial because, as far as we know, she had never committed violence with her own hands on a camp prisoner. and ” the view that until then prevailed in federal jurisprudence », that’s it” manual participation in acts of murder was a prerequisite for conviction for complicity in murder “.
Opinion revised by the judgment in the first instance: ” proven activity in a Nazi extermination camp is considered sufficient for a conviction for complicity in murder Yesterday, the Federal Court clarified this once again. And it is important, writes South German Zeitung : ” a concentration camp was a highly bureaucratic affair, to the devastating efficiency of which all those who maintained the killing machine contributed. “. When Irmgard Furchner ” copied the agendas of the death marches or ordered Zyklon B, she became a link in a chain of deadly causality “.
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