Jean-Claude Duvalier on Monday wearing the same blue suit he was wearing on Sunday, on his arrival in Port-au-Prince. A dozen Haitian police and United Nations equipped to an assault took him from his hotel to go to the prosecutor's office. He wore no handcuffs, no it had arrested. What they wanted was questioning the Haitian authorities to determine if Duvalier stole millions of public funds while dictator ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986.While this was happening, dozens of supporters protested outside the building Duvalier, burning tires and chanted get it "arrest [René] Préval, Haiti's current president. After the questioning, the prosecutor announced the charges against the former dictator, embezzlement and corruption, among other charges.
Shortly after Duvalier left the prosecutor accompanied by police, but no wives, and became available to the Haitian justice system, his lawyers said. Duvalier, known to Haitians as Baby Doc, he returned to Puerto Principe on Sunday, after 25 years of exile in France following the downfall of his regime.
The same police escorted him that day at the airport road in the neighborhood of Petionville, took the street from his hotel early. At one in the afternoon, the officers put him in a Nissan truck tinted windows, escorted by several police cars. Shortly before they were in the room Duvalier Judge Gabriel Ambroise Auguste Aristides and the prosecutor to explain the situation.
Minutes later, Reynold Georges, a lawyer Duvalier chose to conduct his defense. As more police arrived at the hotel where he stayed Duvalier, dozens of protesters gathered outside the building and cheered while waving dictator old photographs of Francois Duvalier, Papa Doc, the father of Jean-Claude, who was dictator of Haiti from 1957 and 1971 and that at death he bequeathed to the Government's child.
This was how Jean-Claude Duvalier took power in Haiti at age 19. His term was marked by the murders committed by government militias of the Tonton Macoutes and the waste of public money. "Under President Duvalier and their death squads, thousands of people were killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of Haitians fled into exile," he recalled on Monday the director for the Americas of Humans Rights Watch, Jose Miguel Vivanco.
International Prudence, however, the memory is another Clébert Joseph, a 65 that gave Haitian dictator living while the police took him, he has Duvalier, "Jean-Claude is not a bad man, he is a Haitian and has more returned to their homeland. All governments in this country have killed somebody.
" Duvalier before the police take him away, the high station of the United Nations Organization for Human Rights had expressed doubts about it were possible to judge Jean-Claude Duvalier, both for its breaches of Haitian public administration as their crímeses against humanity. "It is unclear if the country is in a position to arrest and initiate a process to Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, said in Geneva Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.
The big question is whether the crimes that are attributed to Duvalier been prescribed or not according to Haitian law. The U.S. government, which exerts a strong influence on Haiti, has been cautious in his statements regarding the case of Duvalier. "Any political leader, past or present, should focus not on himself, but to make progress towards a number of important goals, such as human rights, electoral process and reconstruction of the country" were the only words spokesman White House, Robert Gibbs, gave yesterday the subject of Baby Doc
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