Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez announced he has formally requested the extradition of Haitian brothers Luis Bom and Francisco Bom, lead suspects in the events that occurred on 19 February 2018 that caused the deaths of Julio Reyes Perez and his wife Neyda Urbaez Feliz on 19 February 2018. Luis Bom has been arrested by the Haitian authorities and being detained in Jacmel. The alleged motive of the crime was robbery. Neyda Urbaez survived the machete attack but died of her injuries on 17 March 2018.
The request was sent to the Ministry of Justice of Haiti via the Ministry of Foreign Relations so the suspects could be tried in the Dominican Republic for murder of the couple.
The attorney general office argues that while there is not a specific extradition agreement between Haiti and Dominican Republic, this situation is covered by the Convention of Extradition of Montevideo, signed in Uruguay on 26 December 1933 by both the Dominican Republic and Haiti among other countries and adopted by the prosecutor offices in both countries in 1981. Art. 1 stipulates that each signatory states assumes the obligation of surrendering to any one of the states that may make the requisition, the persons who may be in their territory and who are accused or under sentence.
The murders lead to the closing of the market days in Pedernales.
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26 March 2018
