Haiti’s National Police announced that alleged gang leader Mathias Saintil was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
Haiti’s National Police (PNH) has confirmed that a gang leader known as Mathias Saintil was “neutralised” as part of a recent law enforcement operation.
In a social media post shared on Friday, officials described Saintil as the leader of the Boston gang, named for a neighbourhood in Cite Soleil, an impoverished part of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Saintil was reportedly struck by “multiple bullets” during a law enforcement operation, and a police source said he died later in the hospital.
Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime celebrated the news with a social media post of his own.
“One less gang leader,” he…
