The humanitarian organization Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reported this Thursday the violent death of two of its aid workers in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, amid the spiral of violence that has ravaged the city for years and whose neighborhoods are, to a large extent, dominated by powerful armed gangs.
The secretary general of the NGO, Jan Egeland, has confirmed the "brutal murder" of the workers Bonaparte Février and Richard Alexandre, which occurred last Wednesday.
Egeland has paid tribute on social media to "two tireless workers, key members of a heroic team in Haiti to prevent and alleviate the growing suffering of their Haitian compatriots".
"Neither Haitian society nor the outside world can tolerate civilians, including humanitarian workers, being murdered with impunity. We owe Bonaparte and Richard continuing their humanitarian mission in Haiti and bearing witness to the atrocities there," he concluded.
The UN Emergency Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has also firmly condemned the crimes. Fletcher, "horrified" by the murders, has called for those responsible to be brought to justice and has urged an end to the "widespread violence" that is ravaging the country.
The United Nations estimates that around 5,700 people have lost their lives in 2026 due to the wave of criminal violence in Haiti, worsened since the assassination of former president Jovenel Moise in 2021, which triggered an offensive by the mafias and left the security forces weakened in large areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and in provinces key to the country's economy, such as Artibonito.