Haiti turns to the Erik Prince Vectus Global Society to help fight gangs

The security firm of the former Seal Prince US Navy US Erik will soon deploy nearly 200 people from various countries in Haiti as part of an agreement to stifle the violence of the gangs, a person who knew the plans on Thursday.

The deployment of Global VECTS is intended to help the government of Haiti to recover large expanses of territories entered during the last year and now controlled by highly armed gangs, said the person, addressed to the Associated Press subject to anonymity to discuss the plans.

The company, which provides logistics, infrastructure, security and defense, is led by Prince, an adult by American president Donald Trump. Prince previously founded the controversial security company Blackwater.

The deployment was reported for the first time by Reuters.

Long -term advisory role expected

VECTUS Global will also assume a long -term role in Haiti’s government adviser on how to restore income recovery capacities once violence has ended, the person said.

In June, Fritz Alphonse Jean, then leader of the Chairman’s Transitional Council of Haiti, confirmed that the government used foreign entrepreneurs. He refused to identify the company or say how much the agreement was worth.

Romain Le Court Grandmaison, head of the Haiti Observatory on the global initiative against transnational transnational crime, said operations would violate US law unless the United States private military company has authorization from the United States to work in Haiti.

“In the absence of a coherent and joint Haitian and international strategy, the use of private companies is more likely to fragment the authority and sovereignty than to advance the resolution of the crisis,” he said.

A Trump administration official said the US government had no involvement in hiring Global VECT by the Haitian government. The United States government does not finance this contract or does a surveillance exercise, said the official, who asked for anonymity to discuss the situation.

The Prime Minister’s office of Haiti did not send a message for comments, and the members of the Haiti Transitional Council was not put in Haiti either.

Struggle to remove gangs

Private entrepreneurs, which will come from the United States, Europe and other regions, should advise and support the national police in Haiti and a mission supported by Kenyan police who have trouble removing the violence of the gangs.

The mission supported by the UN has 991 staff, much less than the 2,500 envisaged, and some $ 112 million in its trust fund – around 14% of US $ 800 million need a year, according to a recent United Nations report.

The next deployment of private entrepreneurs comes after the recent appointment of André Jonas Vladimir Paris as a new director general of the country’s police.

The parison has already been responsible for the security of the National Palace of Haiti and has been involved in a new forced task created earlier this year, made up of certain police and private entrepreneurs. The working group operated outside the supervision of the national police in Haiti and used the use of explosive drones, which some human rights activists have criticized.

Diego Da Rin, analyst with the international crisis group, said that there is an obvious need for more anti-gang operations, “there is a risk of climbing conflict without having enough staff to extinguish fires that live ANSANM can ignite in many places.”

VIV ANSANM is a powerful gang federation which saw the merger of gangs, including G-9 and G-Pèp-once souls. The United States has appointed him as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.

Jimmy Chérizier, an Ansanm VIV chief and better known as barbecue, recently threatened the parison.

“VIV ANSANM has a military power that they do not always show,” said Da Rin, the analyst.

At least 1,520 people were killed and more than 600 injured from April to the end of June in Haiti.

According to the United Nations Offiré, more than 60% of murders and injuries took place during operations by security forces against gangs, with another game of 12% of self -defense groups, according to the United Nations Office in Haiti.