ARTICLE - MYSTERIOUS PASSPORT #7

THE SAGA OF PASSPORTS, TODAY "THE MYSTERIOUS PASSPORT NO. 7"
(Haiti Libre) -

After having abandoned the idea of Senator François Anik Joseph for analyzing each page of the passports with carbon 14 to see if the ink of these seals corresponds to the dates indicated, the Commission raised yesterday Tuesday, the mysterious case of a passport, which is inconsistent, and therefore false. Before giving back the travel documents, Senator Jean Baptiste Bien Aimé (INITE), a member of the Commission read each passport number [numbered for the purposes of 1 to 8] and keeping until the end, the "famous" passport No. 7, which should permit the continuation of this saga.

Speaking to representatives of "Religion for Peace", while reiterating that he is a former Consul of Haiti in the Dominican Republic, and therefore qualified to determine the authenticity of a passport, he wished to clarify for them, "...we want to attract the attention of 'Religions for Peace'. We only want to make clear that we found that passport No. 7 has 33 pages, instead of 32 pages like all the other passports. The printed number that we see, is supposed to match the number that is perforated on the page [...] We see that it is the number FL 30 0 93, and the other perforated number [top of page] is R 04 61 802, and does not match... This passport, is a fake passport, and we have also seen that it has erasures [...]"

Mgr. Zacchaeus Duracin argued once again to the Senators present, the position of his organization, noting that the religious did not intend to enter into the technical details of passports of the Head of State. "We played and will continue to play our role of a facilitator, so that the two powers, [the executive, and legislative] can collaborate for the benefit of the population."

Senator Jean Baptiste Bien Aimé clarified that these new indices, and other irregularities already identified will be documented in the preliminary report to be submitted to the Assembly, to which it will return, to determine what is the appropriate thing to do in this case.

Senator Jean Charles Moise, has taken advantage of the delivery of the travel documents to "Religion for Peace" to ask them again, to request, from President Martelly, his residence card. Another controversial issue on which the President has still not answered, and that we will know more in an upcoming episode.

After putting in doubt the statements of Ambassador Kenneth Marten, we now have a Senator who has an expertise in false passports, superior to the competence of U.S. Customs, who would never have have noticed during the travels of Martelly, that the passport was a coarse forgery... [?]