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John Joel Joseph, an opponent of the late president’s party, is third of 11 suspects charged for plotting to assassinate Jovenel Moïse
A former Haitian senator has been sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse in 2021, an assassination which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.
John Joel Joseph is the third of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced in what US prosecutors have described as a plot hatched in Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Moïse, who was 53 when he was shot dead at his private home near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 7 July 2021.
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