PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti and the Dominican Republic reinforced troops at their shared border after violence broke out at a protest in the Dominican Republic demanding extradition of a Haitian man accused of murder in both countries, Haiti’s foreign minister said yesterday.
Foreign Minister Alrich Nicolas said the two governments met to try to resolve the problem on Saturday, a day after the violence in the border town of Dajabon.
“We have sent more troops on the border and the Dominican government has done the same,” Nicolas told Reuters.
The Haitian consul in the Dominican province of Dajabon, Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aime, said Wilson Destine had killed a young woman in Haiti then fled to the Dominican Republic. Destine, whom the diplomat called a notorious bandit, then gunned down a Dominican man on July 17 and fled back across the border to Haiti, Bien-Aime said.
“The Haitian bandit shot (the Dominican) in the neck, took away his motorcycle and crossed the border to the Haitian city of Ouanaminthe,” Bien-Aime told Reuters.
Destine is jailed in Haiti, police said.
