Who Failed in Their Responsibility? Who Must Pay for This Admission of Failure?
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 1 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy

The government was aware of the plan to invade the commune of Kenscoff by the Viv Ansanm criminal coalition.
The information was publicly communicated by Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, during a press briefing at the General Directorate of the Haitian National Police this afternoon.
Indeed, the intelligence services of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security already knew what was going to happen and when it would unfold. And yet, it happened anyway….
Already, since last weekend, the editorial staff of Le Relief had alerted public opinion to information collected from very credible sources, concerning a possible macabre plan by Viv Ansanm to definitively encircle the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
The article's title is even premonitory: “New territories conquered by gangs.”
So, in such a context, who will pay the price? Why were no measures taken to preemptively thwart the attack against the commune of Kenscoff?
And the Prime Minister asked this rather simplistic question: “Why, despite the intelligence, was nothing done to thwart the gangs’ plan?”
This revelation indicates a bitter failure for this team which, nevertheless, relentlessly promises to combat insecurity in the country.
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