(12 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 11 March 2024
1. Jimmy Chérizier, also known as Barbecue, gang leader loads a pistol and fires three shots
2. Various of Chérizier with a pistol walks down the street
3. Various of Chérizier talking and holding a rifle
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 26 July 2021
4. Various of gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, next to large photograph of slain President Jovenel Moïse
5. SOUNDBITE (French Creole) Jimmy Cherizier, Haitian gang leader:
"We are here for the revolution, yes we are going to make the revolution."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 24 May 2019
6. Residents of Delmas 6 cheering for Jimmy Cherizier an ex-policeman nicknamed Barbecue (red shirt), who leads a gang called Base Delmas 6
7. Resident gang leader Cherizier on shoulders as residents cheer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 22 October 2021
8. Various of Jimmy Cherizier holding a machine gun in the streets of La Saline (one of poorest areas of the capital) and chanting
9. Jimmy Cherizier holding a marchine gun as his group walks through the streets of La Saline
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 24 January 2023
10. Various of G9 leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier walking through La Saline
11. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, G9 leader:
"I’m not a thief, I’m not involved in kidnapping, I’m not a rapist, I’m just carrying out a social fight to claim a better life for all the people in the world. You in your country, if you were living in these conditions as in La Saline, if you saw the conditions in which Delmas 2 people are living in, wouldn’t you revolt?"
12. Various of G9 leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier riding through La Saline on a motorcycle, UPSOUND (Haitian Creole) "We are in La Saline now."
STORYLINE:
A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Jimmy Chérizier, best known as “Barbecue,” is a leader of a gang federation called Viv Ansanm that the U.S. designated as a foreign terrorist organization in May.
Chérizier lives in Haiti, and the U.S. is offering up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
Chris Landberg, a senior U.S. State Department official, said Chérizier’s “reign of terror and mass violence against Haiti must end.”
But Jake Johnston, author of “Aid State” and international research director at the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, questioned the government’s reason for offering a bounty.
“This is a guy who is giving international media interviews regularly. I don’t think the issue is being able to find him,” Johnston said, adding that the indictment doesn’t represent a threat to Chérizier since he lives in Haiti. “It’s hard to see how it’ll have much of an effect.”
Chérizier is a former elite police officer who was fired in December 2018 and was later accused of organizing large-scale massacres in the slums of Grand Ravine in 2017, in La Saline in 2018 and in Bel-Air in 2019.
More than 100 people were killed in the massacres, which Chérizier has denied organizing.
“Haiti is a hotspot right now … there is incredible violence going on there,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday, calling La Saline killings “notorious because (Chérizier) both planned and participated” in the slaughter.
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