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(CNN)Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has ordered the firing of the country's apical prosecutor, who was investigating the assassination of the precocious President Jovenel Moise, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Tuesday.
Port-au-Prince's main prosecutor, Bed-Ford Claude, had been seeking charges against Henry in transportation with the killing, telling CNN connected Tuesday that helium was discussing the imaginable charges with a judge. He besides instructed the country's migration authorization to barroom the Prime Minister from leaving the country.
Moise was brutally killed during an onslaught connected his backstage residence connected July 7. The ongoing probe into his sidesplitting has turned up dozens of suspects, including US and Colombian citizens, but authorities officials proceed to hunt for a mastermind and motive.
Last week, Claude invited Henry to attest astir the case, citing grounds that a cardinal fishy successful the assassination called him successful the hours aft the murder.
Henry did not respond to aggregate requests by CNN for comment. His spokesman, who declined to remark astir the order, told CNN that Henry did not be the tribunal proceeding this greeting wherever helium was scheduled to testify.
On Tuesday evening, the Prime Minister ordered that Claude beryllium replaced, according to property serviceman Glaphyra Tracy Civil Chery. In a tweet, the premier minister's bureau aboriginal announced that Frantz Louis Juste had been installed arsenic Port-au-Prince's caller interim apical prosecutor.
However, it is unclear whether the Prime Minister has the powerfulness to yet unit Claude retired of his post. Legal experts and erstwhile authorities officials reason that lone the Justice Minister tin occurrence the prosecutor.
Neither Justice Minister Rockfeller Vincent nor Claude himself responded to requests for comment.
In a bid of tweets Saturday, Henry had referenced the case, writing, "I privation to archer those who inactive person not understood, that the diversionary tactics to effect disorder and impede justness from doing its enactment serenely volition not stand."
"The existent culprits, the intelligence authors and those who ordered the odious assassination of President Jovenel Moise volition beryllium identified, brought to justness and punished for their crime," helium besides wrote.
Moise's decease prompted a weeks-long standoff implicit succession successful the country's enactment betwixt the precocious nominated Henry -- a neurologist by grooming -- and then-acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph, before Henry yet took power.
The aboriginal months of Henry's tenure person been troubled by continuing intrigue implicit the assassination, deadly pack unit successful superior metropolis Port-au-Prince, and a catastrophic August earthquake successful the country's southbound that near much than 2,100 dormant and injured much than 12,200.
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