PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Presidential candidate Yves Volel was shot and killed by police Tuesday as he delivered a speech near police headquarters demanding freedom for an alleged political prisoner, witnesses said.
Le candidat à la présidence Yves Volel a été tué par la police mardi, alors qu'il faisait un discours non loin du quartier général de la police afin d'exiger la liberté de prisonniers politiques.
A reporter from TeleHaiti, a local independent television network, said that plainclothes officers walked out of the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Section, approached Volel, beat him and then shot him.
Un journaliste de TeleHaïti, une chaîne de télévision privée locale, a dit que des officiers en uniforme sont sortis des quartiers généraux de la section des enquêtes criminelles, se sont approchés de Volel, l'ont battu et puis lui ont tiré dessus.
Radio Metropole reported that Volel, candidate of a small party called the Christian Democratic Rally, was struck by bullets in the head and back and died instantly.
Selon Radio Métropole, Volel qui était le candidat d'un petit parti : Rassemblement des Chrétiens démocrates, atteint par des balles à la tête et au dos, est mort immédiatement.
Police gave a different version. On the 10 p.m. news on the government television station, Maj. Joseph Baguidy, head of the department's criminal research division, said, "Volel brought about 100 people in front of the police station (and) incited the mob" to violence.
La version de la police était différente. sur la station de télévision du gouvernement, aux informations de 10h du soir, le major Joseph Baguidy, chef du département de la recherche criminelle, a déclaré :
" Volel a amené une foule de 100 personnes devant le commissariat de police et a incité la foule à la violence."
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Haiti Presidential Candidate Killed at Police Station
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Presidential candidate Yves Volel was shot and killed by police Tuesday as he delivered a speech near police headquarters demanding freedom for an alleged political prisoner
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