Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during a news conference at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 2, 2020.
Moise's widow Martine Moise, who was seriously injured in the attack and is being treated in the United States, is expected to return home for her husband's funeral. Colombia's police chief Jorge Vargas said that a former Haitian justice ministry official, Joseph Felix Badio, gave two of the Colombian mercenaries the order to kill the president.
During a first meeting with the two men, Badio told them he did not yet know the date the arrest was supposed to take place, said Vargas. More than 20 people have been arrested in connection with the killing. Haitian police have accused a 63-year-old Haitian doctor with strong ties to Florida, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, of being a mastermind of the plot and having "political objectives."
A caravan of motorcycle-driving allies escorted the ambulance as Aristide, who heads the political party Fanmi Lavalas, was driven to his private residence in the nearby suburb of Tabarre.On the day of Aristide's flight to Havana, Moise himself wished the 68-year-old a "speedy recovery."