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

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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.