The two Dominicans that had been kidnapped for six days in Haiti are back home in Haina. “Only we and God know what we went through,” Maicol Campusano Féliz, told El Caribe reporters on 1 March 2021. He and his brother Antonio were kidnapped when they were traveling with a film convoy of around 15 vehicles.
Campusano explained that five unknown persons intercepted the vehicle in which they were traveling to Santo Domingo and took him, his brother and a Haitian interpreter to an unknown place.
He said the rescue lasted three hours and several intermediaries participated. After the two Dominicans were released, they were taken to the Police Judicial Palace in Port-au-Prince and then to the Dominican Embassy in the Haitian capital.
Maicol Campusano described as excellent the Haitian authorities’ treatment and valued the joint work between both governments to ensure they were released.
He emphasized that even though it was a kidnapping, they were treated well and given meals. “We don’t know why they kidnapped us. The objective was to kidnap someone regardless of nationality,” he speculated.
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El Caribe
2 March 2021