Citizens protest against insecurity; some attack a plane

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):

Haitians on Tuesday took to the streets to protest over increasing insecurity, turning violent in places like the southern city of Les Cayes, where people stormed the local airport and attacked a small plane.

The protests coincided with the 35th anniversary of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution, and it follows other protests and strikes in recent weeks in the middle of a spike in gang-related kidnappings and growing complains about Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s inability to confront criminal organisations.

Gedeon Chery, a National Police inspector assigned to the airport in Les Cayes, told AP that a group of people got on to the terminal’s tarmac, attacked the plane and then set it on fire.

Images posted in social media showed some people on the plane fuselage while the red and white aircraft is moving on the tarmac, and others running along it. Chery said he didn’t know why they attacked it.