4,000 Inmates Escape Prison In Haiti – Now Attempting Take Over Main Airport

On Monday several gangs tried to take over the main airport in Haiti, exchanging gunshots with Haitian police and soldiers trying to hold their ground.

It’s like all hell has broken loose over there now that about 4,000 inmates have escaped from prison.

How does that even happen?

And they’ve got weapons to boot.

How did they get their firearms?

But the real question is, where are they headed now?

Are they planning on visiting our Southern Border?

An estimated 4000 prisoners escaped from Haiti’s prison.

It’s just a matter of time before they’re here in the U.S.

Joe Biden will welcome them with open arms…Democrats love criminals. pic.twitter.com/gTqfqOOD1Z

— Destiny (@Destiny15_FL) March 5, 2024

CBS News reports:

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons. Hours after the airport assault, officials said Haiti’s police academy came under attack by an armed gang.

The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site. Associated Press journalists saw an armored truck on the tarmac shooting at gangs to try and prevent them from entering airport grounds as scores of employees and other workers fled from whizzing bullets.

The attack on the police academy, where more than 800 cadets are training, was repelled Tuesday after the arrival of reinforcements, said Lionel Lazarre of the Haitian police union.

Last week, the airport was struck briefly by bullets amid ongoing gang attacks, but gangs did not enter the airport nor seize control of it.

The attack occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti ordered a nighttime curfew following violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.

“The secretary-general is deeply concerned by the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Port-au-Prince, where armed gangs have intensified their attacks on critical infrastructure over the weekend,” said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Here’s a clip from the airport:

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Haiti Gangs Try to Seize Airport in LARGEST Attack on Key Site

These are the terrifying scenes of people running to escape Haiti’s main international airport after it came under attack on Monday.

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control by exchanging gunfire with… pic.twitter.com/Dai4GtD7Xx

— Abhay (@AstuteGaba) March 5, 2024

MSN adds:

Armed gangs attempted to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday as chaos and violence continue to grip the Caribbean nation.

A Haitian law enforcement source who was at the scene told ABC News that an estimated several dozen gunmen from gangs breached the perimeter wall of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

he assailants exchanged gunfire with Haitian police and soldiers as they tried to reach the airport’s main buildings to take over the facility, but were ultimately stopped before doing so, the source said.

At least one Haitian police officer was wounded and later died at a nearby hospital, according to a Haitian police source. An unknown number of attackers were also injured or killed.

The airport was closed at the time of the attack and no passengers were present nor were any planes in use, but staff members there were forced to hide. No planes will be permitted to land there for several more days, and all U.S. airline flights have been cancelled since Monday.

A Haitian police station near the airport was also destroyed on Monday, one of a couple dozen that have been seized or wrecked by gangs since Feb. 28.

One of the leaders of the Haitian groups was interviewed:

Just a reminder these are the people that Kenyan police will interact with while in Haiti. pic.twitter.com/5cFR4C5ssK

— 𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 (@vinguard254) March 4, 2024

Numerous videos were captured showing the chaos over in Haiti:

❗🔥🇭🇹 – #BREAKING: Haiti reports heavy gunfire near the main international airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, as heavily armed gangs, estimated to control up to 80% of the Caribbean country's capital, attempt to take control of the airport. pic.twitter.com/b2kZIQqX7S

— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) March 4, 2024

If you were planning on taking a vacation over to Haiti, you might want to postpone it.

That place is a warzone right now.