Moment commandos use KILLDOZER in armoured dawn raid on Haiti drug warlord Barbecue’s HQ… only for him to escape again

THIS is the infinitesimal commandos equipped with a killdozer launched a melodramatic dawn raid connected the office of Haiti's astir notorious pack person Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier.

But Barbecue erstwhile again slipped done their grasp, leaving information forces scrambling successful the Baz Delmas neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.

Footage of Sunday's raid showed monolithic armoured bulldozers ploughing done mounts of rubble and blazing homes on the streets of the Haitian capital.

The ngo progressive men from the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSSM) and the Haitian National Police (HNP).

The people was a heavy fortified stronghold controlled by Barbecue, the person of the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies — a conjugation of 12 gangs that predominate overmuch of the Haitian capital.

Commandos deployed armoured vehicles, including a bulldozer outfitted for combat, to breach the gang’s defences.

Unseen drone footage released by MSSM reportedly captured the chaos arsenic Barbecue and respective of his militia fled the scene, abandoning vehicles, weapons, and the excavator utilized to support their base.

His residence was flattened during the assault, but the pack person remains astatine large.

Sunday's cognition marked the latest effort by the MSSM, aided by 400 Kenyan constabulary officers, to asseverate power successful a federation overwhelmed by pack violence.

In a statement, MSSM reaffirmed its committedness to dismantling pack networks and creating a harmless situation for Haiti’s long-awaited wide elections.

“We volition not relent until these perpetrators are apprehended and brought to justice,” the connection read.

Kenyan forces, supported by Haitian police, person conducted respective high-profile raids successful the Delmas country successful caller weeks.

Despite these efforts, Barbecue remains an elusive figure, leveraging his extended web and section power to evade capture.

HAITI'S SPIRALLING CRISIS

Haiti superior has been descending into an all-out civilian warfare and astatine the oculus of the tempest is simply a erstwhile bull who goes by "Barbecue".

Jimmy Chérizier, the astir almighty pack brag successful the disaster-struck metropolis of Port-au-Prince, took to the streets with a caller vengeance and a program to overthrow the government.

The fired cop-turned-warlord is caput of the city's astir fearsome pack coalition, known arsenic the "Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies" - oregon G9 for short.

It contains a postulation of astatine slightest a twelve of the 200 merciless gangs that power up to 90 per cent of the city.

Together with his gun-touting loyal fighters, Barbecue has for years helped teardrop the metropolis apart, inflicting terror, intersexual violence, torture and lawlessness.

In March, helium has ordered a new vicious question of coordinated attacks inside Port-au-Prince that person caused unimaginable scenes of violence.

Haiti’s information concern has reached catastrophic levels, with gangs controlling implicit 80% of Port-au-Prince.

The unit has forced the evacuation of United Nations staff, overseas diplomats, and assistance workers.

Key infrastructure, including airports and seaports, has been paralysed by pack roadblocks and sniper fire.

In caller weeks, the UN has transported evacuees retired of the superior portion continuing constricted operations from safer areas.

Doctors Without Borders suspended its activities successful Port-au-Prince, citing threats to unit and patients, portion nutrient organisation programs person been severely disrupted.

The standard of the unit is staggering.

Over 4,500 radical person been killed this year, with much than 700,000 displaced, according to UN figures.

The situation has besides drawn successful Haiti’s children, with a 70% summation successful their recruitment by equipped groups implicit the past year, according to UNICEF.

It comes arsenic French President Emmanuel Macron has travel nether occurrence from a subordinate of Haiti's interim statesmanlike assembly for referring to Haiti's officials arsenic "total morons" successful a video.

Edgard Leblanc Fils, the council’s erstwhile president, said connected Sunday that Macron’s comments insulted an full federation “facing hard times.”

Macron made the comments earlier this period astatine the G20 gathering successful Brazil, wherever helium chastised the assembly for dismissing Prime Minister Garry Conille aft lone six months successful office.

“They’re full morons,” Macron said, referring to the council.

“They should ne'er person dismissed him.”

Alix Didier Fils-Aimé was named premier curate by the assembly erstwhile Conille was removed.

Macron "did not hesitate to interfere successful Haitian affairs, expressing enactment for Prime Minister Conille and calling him remarkable," Leblanc said.