Early Sunday afternoon, May 4th, 2025, the Haitian National Police's (PNH) Tactical Drone Unit conducted an airstrike in Grand-Ravine, southeast of Port-au-Prince. This raid involved five suicide drones and specifically targeted the stronghold of the "Gran-Grif" gang, led by terrorist leader Luckson Elan, alias "General Luckson," an ally of the "Viv Ansanm" coalition.

This raid targeted several strategic positions of the "Gran-Grif" gang, resulting in numerous terrorist casualties.

According to an unofficial provisional report, Pierre Espérance, Executive Director of the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), reported that these suicide drones killed at least 17 terrorists and injured approximately 40 others, several of them seriously.

Espérance encouraged the continuation of coordinated operations, recalling that these terrorists have been sowing death and terror since 2021, listing, in particular, rapes, murders, looting, and the burning of public buildings, businesses, and homes. According to the latest figures published by the United Nations, more than 10,000 Haitians have been killed in Haiti in less than three years by these armed gangs, including more than 1,600 in the first quarter of 2025 alone. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-44808-haiti-flash-port-au-prince-the-most-violent-city-in-the-world.html

Espérance believes that the use of suicide drones is proving to be an effective strategy, but stresses the need for better coordination between the PNH, the Haitian Armed Forces (FAd'H), and the Multinational Security Support Mission, and insists on well-prepared interventions to avoid collateral damage to the civilian population.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-44822-haiti-politic-us-designates-viv-ansanm-and-gran-grif-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-official.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-44808-haiti-flash-port-au-prince-the-most-violent-city-in-the-world.html

SL/ HaitiLibre