Veytics Intelligence
2026-11-07 · Aljazeera

‘One less gang leader’: Haiti’s prime minister celebrates police operation

Haiti’s National Police (PNH) has confirmed that a gang leader known as Mathias Saintil was “neutralised” as part of a recent law enforcement operation. In a social media post shared on Friday, officials described Saintil as the leader of the Boston gang, named for a neighbourhood in Cite Soleil, an impoverished part of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Saintil was reportedly struck by “multiple bullets” during a law enforcement operation, and a police source said he died later in the hospital. Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime celebrated the news with a social media post of his own. “One less gang leader,” he wrote in a mix of French and Haitian Creole. “The battle to liberate the country from the grip of bandits continues with determination.

Read the full Veytics brief

We show the main point publicly. Create a free account to continue reading the full article, save it, discuss it, and connect it with market and OSINT context.