[rnddh-press] Press Release: Dominique-Louissaint Investigation

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Press Release

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April 3, 2000 – April 3, 2008
For eight years now the cases of Jean Léopold Dominique and Jean Claude 
Louissaint have been as directionless as a piece of wood in the middle 
of the ocean

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RNNDH notes that the investigation of the murders of Jean Léopold 
Dominique and Jean Claude Louissaint has been handled by the following 
investigating judges:
1.    Judge Eddy Darand
2.    Judge Jean Senat Fleuri
3.    Judge Claudy Gassant
4.    Judge Josiard Agnant
5.    Judge Bernard St Vil
6.    Judge Napela Saintil
7.    Judge Jean Perez Paul
8.    Judge Hercule Ostrick
9.    Judge Fritzner Fils-Aimé, the ninth judge to work on this case. 
However, so far there has been no final decision to shine a light on 
this crime.

The first ruling on this case was made in 2003. The ruling attracted 
negative attention from many sectors, particularly the human rights 
sector because the investigation did not cover the masterminds of the 
criminal act. Here are six people who were arrested according to the 
ruling issued by Bernard St. Vil.
1.    Dymsley Milien, alias Ti Lou
2.    Jean Daniel Jeudi, alias Guimy
3.    Markengton Philippe
4.    Ralph Leger
5.    Freud Junio Demarattes
6.    Ralph Joseph

On August 4, 2004, the appeals court issued a ruling which liberated 
Ralph Leger, Freud Junior Demarattes and Ralph Joseph and sent the 
following men to a criminal trial without a jury: Dymsley Milien, alias 
Ti Lou, Jean Daniel Jeudi, alias Guimy and Markengton Philippe. These 
three men, after being condemned, took advantage of an uprising in the 
National Penitentiary on February 19, 2005, to escape. At the same time, 
the appeals court asked for a rogatory commission to complete the 
investigation.
 
The court of cassation, on June 29, 2004, made the decision to confirm 
the ruling the appeals court. After a year the justice authorities 
decided, on April 3, 2005, that an investigating judge would have to 
complete the investigation as had been requested by the appeals court.
 >From May 3, 2006 until April 3, 2008, 23 months, Judge Frintzner Fils 
Aimé sat on the case of Jean Léopold Dominique and Jean Claude Louissaint.
A variety of interviews were conducted, though there were also many 
individuals who refused to respond to the judge’s invitation to talk 
about the case. There are mandates that were issued and never executed.

Currently, there are only two people being investigated in relation to 
the Dominique/Louissaint case: Mercidieu Toussaint, alias Makawon, who 
was arrested on August 26, 2007, and Police Commissioner Jean Daniel 
Ulysse, the former chief of the DCPJ in 2004, who was arrested on 
December 10, 2007.
RNDDH has noticed that there are many obstacles on the road to justice 
for Jean Léopold Dominique and Jean Claude Louissaint.

•    The appeals court, which asked for a rogatory commission to 
complete the case, did not take care to define the mandate of the 
rogatory commission. This slowed progress on the case.

•    The government took responsibility for the case when it decided to 
reinforce the judicial-legal mechanisms, such as the police, to be able 
to execute the mandate which had been handed down on the case.

•    The government preferred to create another extra-judicial mechanism 
(tool), which showed that it was ready to sacrifice “the quality of a 
good ruling to the detriment of the quantity of rulings” as it had 
already done in the case of Brignol Lindor

A criminal investigation which does not shine a light on the crime, the 
motive of the crime, the strategy that was used to commit the crime, is 
not an investigation that is contributing anything to society.

RNDDH would like to ask:
•    For the investigating judge to do his job and expedite the work on 
the report for the appeals court.
•    For the government (the police) to take all measures necessary to 
carry out the orders handed down by the judge in this case.
•    For the police to re-arrest all of those who are guilty in the case.
•    That all efforts are made to have a fair investigation so that 
everyone can know who killed Jean Léopold Dominique and Jean Claude 
Louissaint and which people paid for the crime to be committed.

Marie Yolène Gilles, April 3, 2008

 

 
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