17 Colombian ex-soldiers thought involved in Haiti assassination: police

Seventeen Colombian ex-soldiers are thought to have been involved in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, Colombia's police director said Friday. Two men who had died at the hands of Haitian police and 15 others under suspicion "may have belonged to the national army" of Colombia, having left it between 2018 and 2020, general Jorge Luis Vargas told a press conference. Moise was shot dead in a pre-dawn attack Wednesday by a 28-member hit squad made up of 26 Colombians and two Americans of Haitian origin, according to Port-au-Prince. The president's wife, Martine, was wounded. The Colombian authorities provided no further information on the men's army careers or the reason for their departure from service. Two of the suspects flew from Bogota to Panama on May 6 and from there to Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, where they stayed four days before taking a flight to Haiti, according to Vargas. The other Colombians arrived in the Dominican Republic -- which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti -- on June 4, and travelled to Port-au-Prince two days later. Colombia has said it has information on four companies' involvement in the crime, without...