Haiti - Justice : 4 Haitian smugglers, sentenced in Guadeloupe
Four Haitians, Widberley Predestin (26), Ismick Premier (35), Jean Louis (33) and Jean Vil (36) members of illegal immigration network were sentenced this week at the Criminal Court of Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), to sentences of 3 to 5 years in prison.
The investigation of the "Border Police" (PAF) estimates to more than thirty the number of landings organized by the network in a year, who brought illegally, for money, between 500 and 600 illegal [mainly Haitian and a few Dominican] in the department. The investigation revealed that illegal immigrants paid between 4,000 and 4,500 dollars for the trip from Hispaniola Island to the Dominica, paying in addition 200-600 dollars for the passage between Dominica and South Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) before being taken (50 to 100 euros per person) in a house in Petit-Bourg the time to contact their families, who had to bring money.
For the Deputy Prosecutor, Olivier Dabin, the four defendants were part of a structured network which acted as an organized gang, who received their instructions from a headend unidentified in Dominica.
Accordance with the requisitions of the Deputy Prosecutor, the court sentenced Jean Vil to 3 years in prison with 18 months suspended (avec sursis), and Widberley Predestin, Ismick Premier and Jean Louis 5 years in prison with 18 months suspended. To these sentences, fines were added between 3,000 and 5,000 euros for each defendant.
