13066: Lavaud posts: Re: 12993: Gonaives leader who broke out of jail walks freely around town (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Lesly Lavaud <llavaud13@yahoo.com>

You're not fooling me.

I may not have been in Gonaives that August 2, 2002.
The reputable reports I've read on the accounts of
what happened in Gonaive, indicated that after the
break-in the prisoners were denouncing down with the
goverment etc...  Now the lawyers said he was
kidnapped. When was the last time a kidnap person was
so agile, during kidnapping that he/she is able to
hire a lawyer for legal representation. Is this a joke
in the face of Justice/law and order. Are you fooling
me or what?


--- Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Felix Edouard <loveayiti@hotmail.com>
>
> Copyright 2002 British Broadcasting Corporation
> BBC Monitoring Latin America - Political
> Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
>
>
> August 29, 2002, Thursday
>
> LENGTH: 509 words
>
> HEADLINE: Haiti: Gonaives leader who broke out of
> jail walks freely around
> town
>
> SOURCE: Radio Metropole, Port-au-Prince, in French
> 1145 gmt 28 Aug 02
>
> BODY:
>
>
> Text of report by Haitian Metropole radio on 28
> August; passages within
> double oblique strokes in Creole
>
> Two legal firms have decided to plead the cause of
> Gonaives OP people's
> organization leader Amiot Metayer, also known as
> Cubain.
>
> In a press conference yesterday, Metayer's lawyers
> denied all involvement of
> their client in the events of 2 August in Gonaives.
> Jean Numa Goudou reports
> as follows:
>
> Goudou - recording He was arrested illegally on 2
> July with an arrest
> warrant dated 12 May and then kidnapped from prison
> on 2 August by a crowd
> of people, so our client cannot be the subject of
> any legal proceedings.
> That was the argument put forward by Metayer's
> defence lawyers. Attorney
> Jacob Latortue is one of the six lawyers working on
> the case. Latortue I
> want to say that Metayer is not an escaped prisoner,
> because he was in his
> cell when the crowd that was outside came in with
> their heavy machines,
> stormed the prison and took him away by force. We
> think that it was a
> kidnapping. That is what we think.
>
> Goudou When questioned about Metayer's present
> situation and whether he was
> still be in the hands of his abductors, Luc B.
> Pierre said:
>
> Pierre As far as I know, I cannot say that he is in
> the hands of his
> abductors. You see what I am saying? I know that he
> is on the run. It is
> because he is on the run that he has hired a team of
> lawyers to legitimize
> his situation.
>
> Unidentified journalist Question indistinct
>
> Pierre Listen. He was kidnapped. They can kidnap
> somebody and leave that
> person somewhere in the street. Your supporters can
> come and kidnap you.
> They can come and snatch you away.
>
> Goudou He is on the run, the lawyer said. But his
> flight does not go beyond
> the Gonaives area. That is where Cubain has set up
> his camp. He is seen
> every day going about his business without any
> problem. Metayer has two
> other charges against him: the Jubile fire and
> participation in the violent
> events of 17 December when an alleged coup d'etat
> attempt was followed by a
> government crackdown and damage to the premises of
> opposition groups and the
> houses of opposition leaders . They filed a suit
> against him with the office
> of the examining judge in Gonaives. But the lawyers
> are not sure what legal
> action will be taken against him at the judicial
> level.
>
> Unidentified lawyer As far as I know in this case,
> the judge has not been in
> Gonaives for some time now. Therefore, there cannot
> be any follow-up. That
> means that they cannot try Metayer in this case,
> because the judge has not
> submitted it to the public prosecutor, who should
> give a ruling which will
> then authorize him to conduct a preliminary
> investigation.
>
> Goudou At the moment, it is not clear if the
> Gonaives judicial system will
> be able to carry out an investigation. There has
> been a month of violence by
> Metayer's supporters, the Law Court was set on fire
> and the walls of the
> prison were pulled down on 2 August, which is when
> Metayer was kidnapped
> according to his lawyers. It is like Hollywood
> script.
>
>
>
>
>
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