Between November 29 and 30, 2022, 20 people were killed by armed gangs in the town of Cabaret, a suburb of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Suffering from gang violence since the mid-2010's, the crisis in Haiti was exacerbated in 2021 following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
Most of the gang violence took place in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and occasionally spread to other localities, including Cabaret.
In Cabaret, prior to the attack, the mayor claimed that the police with the aid of residents kicked the gangsters out of the town.
[4] Due to the violence prior to the ejections, the port had been unable to operate and civilians were often the target of extrajudicial killings by gangs.