Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05PORTAUPRINCE1515
2005-06-01 19:04:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Port Au Prince
Cable title:  

FRENCH COUNSUL TO HAITI KILLED IN CARJACKING

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C O N F I D E N T I A L PORT AU PRINCE 001515 

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR DS/IP/WHA, DS/DSS/ITA, DS/DSERCC, WHA/EX

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/01/2015
TAGS: ASEC PTER
SUBJECT: FRENCH COUNSUL TO HAITI KILLED IN CARJACKING

Classified By: Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Douglas Griffiths
for reason 1.4(c)

C O N F I D E N T I A L PORT AU PRINCE 001515

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR DS/IP/WHA, DS/DSS/ITA, DS/DSERCC, WHA/EX

E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/01/2015
TAGS: ASEC PTER
SUBJECT: FRENCH COUNSUL TO HAITI KILLED IN CARJACKING

Classified By: Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Douglas Griffiths
for reason 1.4(c)


1. (SBU) Summary: On the evening of 05/31/2005 (precise
time unknown),Pierre Henri-Mourral, French Honorary Consul
to Haiti based in Cape Haitian, was shot and killed by
unknown assailants. Henri-Morrual was returning to Cape
Haitian, where he owns a prominent hotel, from a visit to
Port au Prince. Subject was killed while driving a new
vehicle with temporary license plates; although the
occurrence of the attack is disturbing, no known information
suggests it was a planned, deliberate attack indicative of a
new threat against foreign or diplomatic personnel. End
Summary.


2. (C/NF) Post's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) spoke with
his counterpart at the French Embassy to Haiti on 06/01/2005.
The French DCM related that the French Consul was driving a
new car along Route National One, a road known for violence,
when he was attacked. He stated the victim was dragged from
the car and shot three times from the rear after his vehicle
was stopped due to gunfire. The French DCM described the
attack as "brutal." He further stated that Henri-Morrual was
a French national who had lived in Haiti for approximately
twenty years. The attackers escaped with the victim's
vehicle.


3. (C) Source, a security professional working for an
international organization in Port au Prince with close ties
to the French Embassy, reports that Morrual has shot three
times in the back of his head. He was then taken to a local
hospital where surgeons recovered three heavily fragmented
bullets, before the patient died. This source has provided
credible information in the past.


4. (SBU) Multiple sources report that Morrual was driving a
new vehicle with "Demonstration" license plates when he was
attacked. (NOTE: "Demonstration" license plates are issued
to newly purchased and leased vehicles. END NOTE) Post has
noted on multiple occasions the dangers of traveling on this
road. The Embassy continues to maintain travel restrictions
in this area and to monitor additional information as it
develops.
FOLEY