Haitian Minister is assaulted in RD

A senior official of the Government of Haiti and close collaborator of President Michel Martelly was assaulted in Dominican Republic, where he had travelled on official business media in Port-au-Prince reported yesterday.

Daniel Suplice, Minister for Affairs of Haitians abroad, and political advisor of Martelly since the start of his campaign that led to the Presidency was "briefly kidnapped this Friday morning by bandits in Dominican Republic before being released later", said the site's news online Haiti Press Network (PNH).

The portal added that Suplice was interviewed last noon by the Haitian station radio Ibo, who commented that he was healthy and except.

The official did not confirm, however, if still in Dominican Republic, territory where he travelled to work on a project to register their compatriots living in Dominican Republic.

Suplice, a sociologist of race, replaced u000ain the Ministry Affairs Haitians abroad to Edwin Paraison, who was Consul of Haiti in Dominican Republic.

To early October, Suplice had sounded to become Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, charge that eventually fell to Laurent Lamothe. Last Wednesday, a Haitian businessman was murdered in Dominican Republic 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 it was reported he was assaulted with his wife, Samelis Mandetle, aged 66, and his daughter, Yean Baptiste, 27 by six men disguised as police officers.

Background
the road where the aseinato occurred, and where possibly Suplice moved, is the usual route used from people of Haiti that cross Dominican Republic by the border post of Malpasse-Jimaní, 282 kilometres southwest of u000aSanto Domingo. F

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, said on that occasion that it was coming from the Haitian capital in his vehicle heading to the airport Las Americas, on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, where it would take a flight to Panama City to spend holidays with your family.

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