On March 18, Jean-Dickens Toussaint and Abigail Toussaint were kidnapped in Port-au-Prince. as confirmed by the same Deputy State Department Spokesman Vedant Patel, for which the United States government immediately took action on the case, which ended satisfactorily.
higher because After being held for ransom in Haiti for nearly a month, a Florida couple has been released. on Thursday after negotiations with his captors.
The Toussaints, who were visiting relatives in Haiti, were abducted while traveling by bus from Port-au-Prince. according to their relatives.
“They stopped the bus at one of the stops and asked the Americans on the bus and their escorts to get off the bus and then took them away,” said Christie Desorme, the couple’s niece.
Initially they demanded a $6,000 ransom, but once they received the money, they increased the price to $200,000 per person.according to Desormes.
The exact details of the conditions for the couple’s release were not immediately disclosed, so the US Embassy is expected to inform about this case.
Haiti, one of the poorest and most violent countries in the region, is grappling with a rise in gang-related kidnappings following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. therefore, the State Department advises Americans not to travel to Haiti “due to kidnappings, crime, and civil unrest.”