Trigger happy
Attackers stormed the domestic home of Haiti's president, Jovenel Moïse, assassinating him in what can only have been a moment of overzealousness. For that was not the intent, apparently.
"In the blink of an eye, the mercenaries entered my house and riddled my husband with bullets," Mrs Moïse says in the recording, describing the moment the attackers killed her husband. "This act has no name because you have to be a limitless criminal to assassinate a president like Jovenel Moïse, without even giving him the chance to say a single word," she continued.
An Haitian judge, Clément Noël, who had spoken to some of the attackers stated that The mission was to arrest President Jovenel Moïse... and not to kill him
He said they had relayed that the goal was not to kill the president but to bring him to the national palace. Mr. Moïse was shot dead in his private residence on the outskirts of the capital around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, his body riddled with bullets.
Catherine Porter & Frances Robles, New York Times
So, if I, Martine Moïse, Judge Clément Noël, and the media all have this correct, then the attackers stormed the president's home to arrest him and take him to the Presidential Palace, but riddled him with bullets so quickly and effectively that he didn't utter a word. By any definition, this has to be considered a strategic cock-up. To put it mildly. Eh, Ron?
