A UN Vehicle Torched

Haiti - Social : An UN vehicle torched...
(Haiti Libre) - 28/02/2015 13:15:41

Friday, hundreds of students belonging to a group of different faculties of the State University took the streets of the Capital, demanding the release of Chedler Guilloux, a student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, suspected of having participated in the burning of a bus of the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes (CSC/CA) http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13255-haiti-security-arson-of-a-bus-of-the-court-of-auditors.html

During this demonstration, where students had erected barricades of burning tires, unidentified individuals, taking advantage of the mess, smashed the windscreen of a UN pickup truck, not far from the Hospital of the State University, before according to witnesses, overthrow it and burn it down. The fire was quickly controlled, thanks to the intervention of police officers and firefighters.

Furthermore, at the Faculty of Law the tension was high Friday, police and students clashed with stones and tear gas, between tire barricades. Students always required a reduction of 100 gourdes on fuel prices...