The kidnappers of two Dominicans and a Haitian who are part of a film crew have asked for $ 2 million in exchange for their release in Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian press.
The two Dominicans work as technicians at the film production company Muska Group and at the time of the kidnapping, on Saturday in Port-au-Prince, while returning to the capital after filming in the south of the country, they were joined by a Haitian interpreter, as he told Efe, a person in charge of the company this Sunday.
“Two Dominican technicians and a Haitian interpreter were indeed kidnapped,” said the head of the Haitian manufacturing company, refusing to elaborate.
The kidnapping took place Saturday night in the area known as 5th Avenue, at the southern entrance to Port-au-Prince, an industry considered anarchic due to the existing insecurity.
The kidnapping took place between 9:45 PM and 10:00 PM on Saturday (2:45 AM and 3:00 AM GMT on Sunday), when the production company’s team had just returned to the Haitian capital after a late filming on the coast. town of Jacmel.
The vehicle was escorted by police vehicles in the front and rear, according to sources familiar with the events.
According to sources, the Dominicans had expensive cinematographic equipment in the vehicle, which was also taken by the gang of kidnappers.
Since last year, the number of kidnappings in Haiti has skyrocketed, perpetrated by armed gangs that kidnap people from all walks of life every day to demand ransom.
According to estimates by the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH), there are currently more than five kidnappings per day in the country, the organization’s director, Mary Rosy Auguste Ducéna, told Efe.