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‘I’ll be killed if they find me’: Radio reporter Maxo Dorvil flees Haiti amid gang violence

  • Source: CPJ
  • November 29, 2023

“Haitian radio journalist Maxo Dorvil fled the country on November 7, 2023, after reporting that he was shot at twice in less than two weeks near his home on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince.

The 44-year-old journalist with the independent broadcaster Radio Télé Zip said he was shot at by two armed men on motorbikes who tried to block the road as he was driving home on September 29 in the Croix-des-Bouquets suburb on the northern outskirts of the city.

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Dorvil went into hiding but says he was attacked again on October 9 by half a dozen armed men while he was trying to visit his home.”

 

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