A tense situation prevailed at the frontier between Quanaminthe, Haiti and Dajabon in the DR. Haitians protested the murder of a Haitian merchant by a Dominican military and the Haitian police impeded Haitians from traveling to Dajabon for market day. The Haitians demanded that the arrested military accused of the death of Elies Jean Batiste be subject to civil court and not a military court. The circumstances of his death have not been explained. Dominican authorities head by Dajabon province Governor Caciano Lora and Fourth Brigade of the Army General Cesar Soto Nicasio met to analyze the situation. Both Governor Caciano Lora and General Soto Nicasio ensured that there would be justice. General Soto said that his superior, Minister of the Armed Forces Major General Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez gave precise instructions to take the investigations to the end so that justice prevail.
