A group of armed policemen attacked the residence of the president of Haiti, who was returning from Argentina this Thursday

Dozens of armed policemen attacked this Thursday the private residence of Haitian Prime Minister

-located in Argentina- as part of a protest movement against the authorities' indifference to the death of

at the hands of of armed groups during this month.

In the midst of the attack on Henry's residence, located in the Delmas 60 sector, in Port-au-Prince, material damage was recorded and

were heard , while several vehicles ended up with

, according to local media reports.

The prime minister plans to return this Thursday from Argentina, where he participated on Tuesday in the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

To prevent the landing of the plane that will bring him to the country, the protesters went to the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, where they

and burned tires, causing traffic to stop.

Protests in Port-au-Prince have been going on since last year.

Photo EFE

The tension in the metropolitan area of ​​Port-au-Prince and its surroundings is at its highest this Thursday, in which

is recorded , a few hours after seven police officers were killed by armed groups in Savien, in the Haitian department of Artibonite, raising to ten the number of agents killed

.

Given the tense situation, some schools have sent their students home and the population tends to leave the streets of the capital, where the police presence has been scarce in recent days.

In 2022, at least 55 agents were killed in the country, in a context marked by the

and dominated by armed attacks,

, robberies and rapes.

Immersed for years in a socio-political and economic crisis, Haiti saw its situation worsen further after the assassination in July 2021 of then-President Jovenel Moïse.

With information from EFE

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