HAITI: Police arrest dozens for looting destroyed electronics store

Record ID: 735490

  • Title: HAITI: Police arrest dozens for looting destroyed electronics store
  • Date: 18th February 2010
  • Summary: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (FEBRUARY 16, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOTING A ELECTRONICS STORE NEAR THE MARKET OF PORT-AU-PRINCE LOOTERS RUNNING DOWN THE STREET WHILE CARRYING ELECTRONICS WOMAN CAUGHT BY THE HAITIAN POLICE WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THE LOOTING HAITIAN POLICE AT THE ELECTRONIC STORE WHERE THE LOOTING WAS TAKING PLACE YOUNG WOMAN CAUGHT BY THE HAITIAN POLICE WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THE LOOTING (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED LOOTER SAYING "I go to the same place where the other men go to take anything. But at the end police caught us". HAITIAN POLICE VARIOUS YOUNG WOMAN WALKING WITH A POLICEMAN CARRYING THE GOOD SHE TOOK FROM THE STORE FEET OF THE DETAINED WITH THE GOOD LOOTED FROM THE STORE HAITIAN BOY VARIOUS OF LOOTERS CAPTURED BY HAITIAN POLICE IN A LINE WITH THE LOOTED GOODS
  • Embargoed: 5th March 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Haiti
  • Country: Haiti
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA260VYH82CNYLCYH7UFK4M2QAH
  • Story Text: Dozens were arrested in downtown Port-au-Prince on Tuesday (February 16) after looting an electronics store.
    Hordes of Haitians descended on the building which was surrounded by rubble from the January 12 earthquake.
    Many walked away holding electronic goods, including radios and televisions.
    "I go to the same place where the other men go to take anything. But at the end police caught us," said one of the looters.
    The police arrested some forty people.
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