Haiti judge charges widow, ex-PM over president's assassination

FILE PHOTO: Haiti's former first lady Martine Moise speaks during an interview with Reuters on her husband's assassination in an undisclosed location, August 30, 2021. Picture taken August 30, 2021. REUTERS/Eva Marie Uzcategui/File Photo

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian judge in charge of the investigation into the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean nation's last president has charged some fifty people, including his widow and a former prime minister, according to a document leaked to local media.

According to the 122-page document from Judge Walther Wesser Voltaire, made public by AyiboPost, the president's widow Martine Moise conspired with former Prime Minister Claude Joseph to kill the president in order to replace him herself.