2023-10-28 00:10:00
Germán Rivera, 44, had pleaded guilty last month to four counts of conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping. During the sentencing, which took place this Friday in a federal court in Miami before Judge José E. Martínez, an “interpreter was sworn and the defendant was subsequently sentenced,” according to court documents to which EFE had access.
The mercenary had appeared before Justice in Miami along with Haitian-Americans, James Solages, Joseph Vincent and Christian Sanon. The four had been transferred at the beginning of the year from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, to Miami, where, with the exception of Sanon, they faced a charge of conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping of a person outside the United States.
Three Haitian-Americans, the masterminds
Moise was gunned down by a commando with weapons and military equipment who stormed his residence on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021, which also seriously injured his wife, Marine Moise. According to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern District of Florida, the three Haitian-Americans met in April 2021 in the south of this state to discuss how to promote a change in the Presidency of the Caribbean nation and, after the meeting, a list with equipment and weapons that included rifles, machine guns, tear gas, grenades, ammunition and bulletproof vests.
On June 10, 2021, Sanon shipped 20 ballistic vests from South Florida for its private military forces, without the corresponding export licenses. Days later, Solages, Vincent, Rivera and others attempted unsuccessfully to arrest the president and kidnap him, after which on June 28, 2021, Solages traveled from Haiti to South Florida to close the operation against Moise and then, on July 1, , returned to the island to allegedly participate in the murder.
Former Haitian senator already sentenced to life in prison
On July 6, Solages, Vincent, Rivera and others met at a house near President Moise’s residence, where “Solages announced that the mission was to kill President Moise” and firearms were distributed. and bulletproof vests, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Others who were arrested in this case are the Colombian Mario Antonio Palacios, the Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar and the former Haitian senator Joseph Joel John, arrested last year. Jaar pleaded guilty in March to providing support to the commando that carried out the assassination of the Haitian president and last June he was also sentenced by a federal judge in Miami (Florida) to life in prison.
Regarding Rivera, the court will recommend that he be appointed to a federal facility located “in southern Florida or as close as possible to it,” according to the ruling.
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