Haiti asks RD have improved safety in developing

The Haitian Government demanded that the authorities of Dominican Republic greater security in their roads, after the assault that was the victim in this country a Haitian Minister and close collaborator of President Michel Martelly.

"The Haitian Government deplores the perpetration continued this type of incidents on Dominican roads leading towards the Republic of Haiti," said the Haitian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Saturday but released just yesterday by the press Haitian.

Haiti confirmed the assault to the Minister for Affairs of Haitians abroad, Daniel Suplice, occurred on the Thursday night when it moved by the Duarte Highway, near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

The car in which Suplice and his family was intercepted by four individuals dressed in police uniforms Dominican.

Its occupants were then driven at gunpoint to a dark place u000ato be stripped of their belongings, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haiti.

Communiqué stresses that once known the situation, the Haitian Chancellor Laurent Lamothe met with his Dominican counterpart Carlos Morales Troncoso, who alerted the immigration services and the staff of the armed forces Dominicans in order to safeguard the lives of the staff member and start the search for the assailants.

"This is a situation which has the potential to jeopardize the good relations between the two countries," said the Ministry of affairs foreign of Haiti.

Suplice, political advisor to President Martelly during the election campaign, was informed of the fact on Friday a Haitian radio station, but not said the circumstances of the assault.

Dominican Republic this year faced a spiral of violence caused by organized crime, common crime and drug trafficking than in the first half of 2011 u000ait caused the deaths of 1,260 people.

On Wednesday of last week, a Haitian businessman was killed near the city of San Cristobal, 30 kilometres to the West of Santo Domingo.

The victim was identified as Jean Baptite Luiscene, of 53 years, and said then authorities was assaulted along with his wife, Samelis Mandetle, aged 66, and his daughter, Yean Baptiste, 27 by six men disguised as police officers.

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Other cases OCURRIDOS in roads in the country
the road where occurred the murder of the businessman is the usual route from people of Haiti that cross Dominican Republic by the border post of Malpasse - Jimaní, 282 kilometres southwest of Santo Domingo use.

In early September, Marcos Villegas, Consul Panama in Haiti, which was passing through Dominican Republic, was assaulted on the same road where occurred the death of Luiscene.

Villegas, of 40 years, u000aHe said on that occasion that came from the Haitian capital in its vehicle heading to the airport on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, Las Americas, where would take a flight to Panama City to spend holidays with your family.

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