Colombian accused in assassination plot told sister he was there to protect, not to kill.

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The sister of the one of the Colombians accused in the plot to assassinate President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti said he told her that he had not gone to Haiti to kill anyone — but rather had traveled to the Caribbean nation after receiving a job offer to protect a “very important person.”

His message came shortly before he died himself in the bloody aftermath of the assassination, one of three people killed in confrontations with the authorities.

In an interview, Yenny Carolina Capador, 37, said that her brother, Duberney Capador, 40, was a 20-year veteran of the Colombian military who spent years fighting Colombia’s left-wing guerrillas. He had retired in 2019 and was living on a family farm with his mother. He had two children.

Mr. Capador arrived in Haiti in May, his sister said, after receiving a job offer from a security company. Ms. Capador did not know the name of the company, but her brother soon sent her a picture from Haiti in which he wore a dark uniform embroidered with the letters “CTU.” His dream was to save money to improve the family farm, and to fund his children’s education, she said.

The siblings spoke often, and Mr. Capador said that he was spending his days training with others at a country house. On Monday, he sent her pictures of a group barbecue.

Then, early Wednesday, a deadly attack on the Haitian president was launched.

A few hours later, around 6 a.m., Ms. Capador began receiving calls and texts from her brother, she said. He told her that he was danger, holed up in a home with bullets flying around him. At times, Ms. Capador could hear the gunfire in the background.

Ms. Capador said her brother told her nothing about an assassination, and instead told her that he had arrived “too late” to save the “important person” he claimed he was hired to protect.

Credit…Yenni Carolina Capador

According to Mr. Capador, she said, “they arrived half an hour after the man had died.”

The siblings exchanged messages all day long, and he begged her not to tell their mother that he was in danger.

“God bless you,” Ms. Capador wrote in a text message on Wednesday evening.

“Amen,” he wrote back at 5:51 p.m.

She never heard from him again.



Source : Nytimes