Trial

Boston – A former mayor of Haiti is scheduled to be tried on Monday after the authorities said that he had lied to his visa requesting that violations of rights in his country.

Jean Moroz Felina, who was living in northern Boston in Malden, Massachusetts, was charged in 2023 for fraud in the visa. The authorities said that he wrote about his request that he had not “ordered, executed or assisted in the killings outside the judiciary, political and other violence against the Haiti people.”

But federal prosecutors claim that while the mayor of the town of Liz Iris, a society with about 22,000 on the Western advice of Hitty, Felina participated in violence against political enemies.

In 2007, the prosecutors said that he had led a group of his allies to a political opponent’s house, where he and his companions opened fire on the brother of the smaller opponent, then broke his skull with a rock.

Prosecutors also claim that in 2008, Velina and his allies went armed with guns, machines, selection and homes to close a community radio station that opposes it. The authorities said that he recounted the pistol and you a man and ordered an assistant to shoot at the man and another person.

Both survived, but one of the men lost his leg and the other blind in one eye.

Viliena was found responsible by an American jury in a civil trial in 2023 in the killing, the two tried to kill and evaluated $ 15.5 million of compensatory and punitive damage.

The lawsuit was filed by the Justice and Accountability Center based in San Francisco on behalf of David Bonifas, the rulers Yassimi and the martyr of Nissaj in Boston in 2017.

The lawsuit was filed under the 1991 torture victims law, which allows the lawsuits to be filed in the United States against foreign officials due to allegations of violations in their homeland if all legal methods are exhausted in their country.

The center also called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American Embassy in Haiti and the American Court of Human Rights to work with the Haiti government to ensure the safety of their clients and members of their families, who were exposed to revenge and intimidation.

Jason Benzakin, the main lawyer in Felina, said his client has an opportunity to provide evidence of his innocence.

The master. Benzakin said:

Boniface, Ysemé and Shtyr live in hiding and said in the statements on Wednesday that despite their satisfaction with the arrest of Velina, they are concerned about their families.

The mother of the martyr and her sisters still lives in Lizire.