One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier, has sounded a warning to Kenyan police officers waiting to be deployed in the country on a peace mission. Dreaded Haiti gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier during an interview. Kenya has pledged to send 1,000 police officers to lead a UN-backed alliance to help restore order to the nation overrun by armed gangs. Barbecue, as he’s popularly known, has made it clear that any foreign peacekeeping force sent to the Caribbean nation would face armed resistance. He warned that the police officers from Kenya would be considered aggressors who are against their independence. “It’s evolving. If the Kenyan military or Kenyan police come, whatever, I will consider them as aggressors, we will consider them as invaders, and we do not have to collaborate with any invaders that have come to walk over our independence,” he said. Subscribe to watch new videos Why is Barbecue against Kenya police in Haiti According to him, Kenyan police and other international peacekeeping missions will commit massacres in poor communities. The gang leader claimed that preconceived ideas informed the missions about what they’d find in the Caribbean nation. “I believe that just like I said, if the Kenyans come, first of all they will come to commit massacres in the poor communities because the oligarchs and the corrupt politicians are going to tell them where to go on the pretext that they’re coming to eliminate gangs and bandits, and they’re going to enter the poor communities to commit massacres,” he said. Barbecue currently leads the G9 group of gangs and Viv Ansanm (Living Together) revolutionary group, a newly formed gang alliance.
