Dominican diplomat apparently kidnapped in Haiti

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A diplomat from the Dominican Republic apparently has been kidnapped in neighboring Haiti, prompting Dominican authorities to name for his protected launch.

The native newspaper El Dia reported Tuesday that the federal government additionally had beefed up its navy presence on the border, although officers didn’t instantly have any touch upon that.

The Dominican authorities stated in a weekend assertion that Carlos Guillén Tatis, the agriculture counselor at its embassy in Port-au-Prince, apparently was kidnapped on Friday whereas travelling towards a border crossing.

Ambassador Faruk Miguel Castillo stated Guillén Tatis apparently was kidnapped within the Croix-des-Bouquets district of the Haitian capital. That space is a stronghold of the 400 Mawozo gang that kidnapped 17 folks from a U.S. missionary group in October and held most of them till December.

Dominican authorities stated that they had given Haitian police proof from the diplomat’s cell phone that indicated he’d been kidnapped.

In what could have been an unrelated improvement, Haiti’s Nationwide Police introduced that one of many prime leaders of the 400 Mawozo gang, Germine Joly, was extradited to america on Tuesday aboard an FBI airplane.

It stated he faces U.S. fees involving smuggling, import of weapons of warfare and kidnapping.

Joly, often known as “Yonyon,” had been in a Haitian jail for a number of years.

The police assertion famous that his gang was concerned in bloody gang clashes that broke out late final month within the Croix-des-Bouquets space. Not less than 20 folks had been killed and hundreds fled their properties.