Another Gang Leader Killed in Haiti!
Port-au-Prince, Nov 6 (EFE).-
Powerful Haitian gang leader Mathias Sainthil died from injuries sustained during a drone operation by law enforcement in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, the government reported Friday.
“One less gang leader. The fight to free the country from the grip of bandits continues with determination. The gangs won’t get a moment’s peace,” Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé wrote on X.
Local media reported the leader was Mathias Sainthil, leader of the Boston gang, which operates in the Boston neighborhood and the neighboring Carrefour Drouillard area in the Cité-Soleil district.
Sainthil was the target of a kamikaze drone attack that crashed into the vehicle he was traveling in on Thursday night, also killing other members of his gang. This is the first time a leader of an armed gang has been killed in a drone operation by Haitian law enforcement.
In 2024, the UN reported that Sainthil’s gang, accused of murder, arson, rape, robbery and the hijacking of goods and trucks, had around 100 members.
The news of Sainthil’s death came on the same day that thousands of people demonstrated in Port-au-Prince and other cities across the country to express their support for the Salvadoran soldiers who arrived two weeks ago in the Caribbean nation to support operations against the armed gangs that control most of the capital.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Port-au-Prince to assist in the search for four Salvadoran soldiers from the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) who have been missing since Oct. 18, after they were ambushed by armed gangs in the Santo area of the capital’s Croix-de-Bouquets district.
Since their arrival, the Salvadoran troops have intensified operations against armed gangs in several neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince. EFE
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