Following the violent clashes last Friday at the time when the President Martelly accompanied the First Lady was trying to enter the Faculty of Ethnology of the State University of Haiti (UEH) to attend an international symposium under the theme "the Ethnology and the construction of the political nation, of people, of citizen in Haiti", Jean Vernet Henry, the Rector of the UEH said he's appalled by what happened.

"This is an incident that is really unfortunate, it is true that we do not yet have all the real information, [...] but anyway it is not normal to send rocks on the cortege of the President.

For cons, I think also, that there are institutional reports [...] since the President went to the Faculty of Ethology, he had to announce it to the Dean of the Faculty and at that time, there would be measures that would have been taken to correctly receive him.

[...] Is an unnamed incident, I am very embarrassed of something like that because I was forced at a certain moment to call the Red Cross, to be able to evacuate people [...] I think that the incident that happened is not normal [...] it's a wrong way to do [...] all breakage that was made... some individuals invaded the precincts of the faculty and breaks everything [...] already that we do not have means and we're seeing losses like this ... I am really appalled by what happened..."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-4983-haiti-social-violent-clashes-between-students-and-supporters-pro-martelly.html

HL/ HaitiLibre - Photo : ©Ramon Espinosa, AP