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Posted Sunday, January 1, 2012

Haiti's chief prosecutor refuses to navigate in president's world of illegality, submits letter of resignation 

By Yves A. Isidor, Wehaitians.com Executive Editor
NASHUA, NH, Jan. 1, 2012 - Less than one day, Saturday, before Haiti marked 208 years of its very sad history,  one of  the Caribbean nation's chief prosecutors, Lionel Constant Bourgoin, for the earthquake-ravaged capital city of Port-au-Prince or west district, submitted his letter of resignation.
                                       
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Haiti's justice system, like all of the nation's other institutions, broken. Mr. Lionel Constant Bourgoin standing behind a microphone.
                                               
Mr. Bourgoin, who exactly 28 days ago replaced Jean-Francois Harrycidas Auguste, after the later was forced to consider the top cop job a thing of the past for unreservedly participating in the taking out of the circulation of Arnel Belizaire, a deputy who was subsequently briefly jailed, despite he enjoyed full parliamentary immunity from arrest and prosecution, to name only these two, while in office, according to Article 115 of the nation's 1987 charter, his resignation came after he vehemently refused to follow Haiti 's apprentice-dictator-in-the-making President Michel Joseph Martelly's orders to issue fraudulent arrest warrants for some or all nine members of the always Provisional Electoral Council, commonly known as the CEP, members destituted from their function days ago (Thursday) by presidential decree on said trumpeted corruption charges.

"My democratic convictions, the judicial powers that are vested in me, which certainly I am not above, do not permit that I, in part or in full, assist the current government in its effort to become an authoritarian one," eloquently wrote Mr. Bourgoin in his letter of resignation to his hierarchical chief, Minister of Justice, Pierre Michel Brunache, and the latter, Mr. Josue Pierre-Louis's replacement. A few weeks ago, he was forced to resign for reasons that did not differ those of Mr. Auguste's departure,

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"So when I got in this situation where a Minister asks me to do things I can not do, that the criminal proceedings does not allow me to do, I am obliged to resign, I do not have choice [...] I refer to the case Gaillot, everyone knows it.," Lionel Constant Bourgoin More

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"I am obliged, since I assumed the office of the chief prosecutor, on November 5, 2011, to work in the best interest of all citizens," added Mr. Bourgoin, who also communicated the very unpleasant words, such as "I cannot arrest citizens when there are no probable causes for so or simply because they disagree with me or someone else in position of authority in the government," to his superior.

"Sure did Mr. Bourgoin prove that he was capable of putting into practice the ideals to which he has adhered all his life, which guided him in the dissident years for democracy and respect for human rights in his nation of Haiti,' a longtime friend and colleague told Wehaitians.com early Sunday, by way of a telephone, on the customary condition of anonymity because he feared for his life. 
                                              
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Pierre Michel Brunache (L) and Thierry Magnard-Paul. The latter is indisputably laden with garbage of dictatorial nature. As did former totalitarian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the new so-called public servants are too doing their best, with regularity, to be certain that Haiti is finally interred. (Photos/Wehaitians.com, File)
                                                  
Thierry Magnard-Paul, the self-proclaimed very powerful Haiti's Interior Minister, who directly participated in the arrest of Member of Parliament Belizaire at the Port-au-Prince and Haiti's only International Toussaint Louverture Airport weeks ago, was again seen at the same airport, well-armed, late last week in an attempt to himself arrest Gayot Dorsainvil, the former president of the CEP, while he was on the verge of departing his troubled nation for an unknown foreign land.
                                      
 
The letter of resignation, in French
 
                                
Lettre de démission du Commissaire du Gouvernement :

Monsieur Pierre Michel Brunache
Ministre de la Justice et de la Sécurité Publique
En ses bureaux

Monsieur le Ministre,

J’ai le regret de vous présenter ma démission en tant que Commissaire du Gouvernement près le Tribunal de Première Instance de Port-au-Prince. Depuis ma prise de fonction le lundi 5 décembre dernier, je n’ai cessé d’agir au nom de la société que pour veiller à la bonne application de la loi et au respect de l’ordre public, ce, pour une action publique efficace et respectueuse des libertés individuelles.

En raison de mes profondes convictions et pleinement conscient de la mesure de mes missions, je ne saurais être le bras armé d’un quelconque pouvoir d’inspiration autoritaire soucieux d’établir son ordre.

Comptant sur votre compréhension, je vous prie, Monsieur le Ministre, de bien vouloir accepter ma démission.

Patriotiquement vôtre,

Lionel Constant Bourgoin
Commissaire du Gouvernement
Près le Tribunal de première Instance de Port-au-Prince


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