PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti– The journalist’s family kidnapped here on July 17 is appealing to his abductors to release him, saying they cannot afford any ransom.
Two days before his abduction, the journalist Edner Fils Décime posted on his Facebook page, “Haiti, I still believe in it.”
His family said that he remains in the hands of his captors and is “imploring them to release him,” claiming that they do not “have the means to pay the demanded ransom.”
Meanwhile, Michel Joseph, the driver of the National Ambulance Center (CAN), who was kidnapped on July 20, has been released without any ransom being paid.
But the Administration of the National Ambulance Center (CAN) said that armed individuals had seized the ambulance heading for the town of Thiotte on an assignment.
“The National Ambulance Center urges the population to be vigilant and pay attention to the license plates of CAN ambulances circulating in the streets. The CAN declines all responsibility relating to the use of the stolen ambulance.
“Steps are continuing with the police and other authorities concerned to recover the ambulance in question as quickly as possible,” it added.