Monday, following a violent fire that devastated the section "fabrics, clothing and meat" of the Croix-des-Bossales market https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20410-haiti-flash-the-clothing-market-of-the-croix-des-bossales-destroyed-by-fire.html a delegation of the Municipal Administration of Port-au-Prince, composed among other of Deputy Mayors: Kettyna Bellabe, Bernard Joseph and the Chief of Staff, Paulson Pierre-Philippe, went to the site for the second time, to assess the extent of the damage.

The Municipal Administration took this opportunity to thank the town councils of Carrefour, Delmas came in reinforcement, and the immediate intervention of the Minustah, which deployed 88 agents, 45 military and five water trucks to contain the spread of this fire.

The delegation expressed its sympathies to the victims, while giving them the assurance that they would stand by their side in these difficult times and that they would do everything possible to accompany them once the extent of the damage had been evaluated.

Of merchants who during a good part of the day, walked through the smoking ruins of the market, with tears in their eyes, not believing for a moment the promises of the officials of the Port-au-Prince Town Hall to accompany them, reminding that it was not the first time that this market was burning and that they were never compensated.

While deploying this tragedy that will affect many merchants of market, the City of Port-au-Prince urges the police and judicial authorities to investigate the fire in order to determine the cause...

A case qualified as criminal, by the Commissioner of the Government Jean Danton Léger, who speaks of "crapulous crime". He announced that he had initiated the public action, noting that warrants had been issued against various market officials and security agents to be questioned at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Port-au-Prince as part of the instruction of the investigation.

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SL/ HaitiLibre