July 14, 2021

“This Pain Will Never Pass”: Haiti’s First Lady Martine Moïse Shares First Images From Florida Hospital Bed

By Newsroom

One week to the day she was attacked and her husband, President Jovenel  Moïse assassinated at their private residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s First Lady Martine Moïse shared two images from her hospital bed in Florida, giving thanks for the chance to survive.

Moïse was airlifted to a hospital in South Florida last Wednesday afternoon, after suffering several gunshot wounds from her attackers.

“Mèsi ak tout moun ki ap ede mwen priye pou mwen rejwenn lavi. Paske tout tan ou lopital lavi’w nan men Bondye ak doktè. Mwen menm Martine Moïse mwen  poko kwè Mari mwen ale konsa devan je’m san ke li pa di mwen yon dènye mo, doulè sa a pap janm pase,” she tweeted. 

Translation: “Thank you to everyone who is helping me pray for me to come back to life. Because all the time you are hospitalized your life in the hands of God and doctors. I am Martine Moïse I still do not believe my husband goes like that before my eyes without telling me one last word, this pain will never pass”

In a follow up tweet in English, she said: “Thank you for the team of guardian angels who helped me through this terrible time. With your gentle touch, kindness and care, I was able to hold on. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

Though this is the first time images of Haiti’s First Lady have been shared following last Wednesday’s shocking attack, she first spoke publicly on her husband’s killing on Saturday.

In an audio clip, she said “One blink of an eye, mercenaries came to my house and riddled my husband with bullets.”

“After 25 years of marriage they took my husband away from me. I knew going into politics wasn’t going to be easy. We must continue the fight. Jovenel was for the people. They assassinated him because he wanted to change the country. We must stand up and continue the fight…he was fighting for us, and we must continue fighting for him.”

Haitian investigators have said a group of two dozen mercenaries, including two US-Haitian citizens and a number of Colombians, several of whom were former soldiers, stormed Moïse’s villa, pretending to be a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid, overpowering staff and security.

During the raid, Moïse was shot up to 12 times and his house ransacked.

In the hours that followed, a number of the alleged attackers were either killed in shootouts or captured, some at Haiti’s Taiwanese embassy where they had sought refuge.

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