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| Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2008 |
| Clerk injured after Haitian lawmaker allegedly fired his gun at
colleague during a heated debate in Haiti parliament |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: A Haitian lawmaker's handgun went off during a heated debate in
parliament Tuesday, injuring a legislative clerk.
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| Above, Lawmaker Isidore Mercier firing his gun. |
Isidor Mercier insisted the gun fired by accident after he bent down to pick up the
fallen firearm. The bullet hit the clerk in his right shoulder.
But reporters who witnessed the scene said they saw Mercier brandish the gun after
another lawmaker accused him of profiting from a scheme that involved the repeated
replacement of tires on a legislative car.
The firearm seemed to discharge when Mercier was jostled from behind during the tense
debate, according to reporters who watched images of the shooting captured by a cell phone
camera.
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| The clerk, whose bullets were pumped into his body. |
But several people who were in the building alleged Mercier intended to fire the
revolver and called for his arrest.
Mercier is an opposition legislator from the southern peninsula town of Jeremie.
Haitian legislators are increasingly entering Parliament armed for their own security,
according to lawmaker Eliphete Noel.
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