Haiti prosecutor asks judge to charge, probe PM in slaying

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI » Haiti’s chief prosecutor asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country, a move that could further destabilize a country that seemed to be calming after turmoil that followed the assassination and a recent major earthquake. The order filed by Port-au-Prince prosecutor BedFord Claude came on the same day that he had requested Henry meet with him and explain why a key suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse called him twice just hours after the killing.

“There are enough compromising elements ... to prosecute Henry and ask for his outright indictment,” Claude wrote.