Self-described King of the deadly Haitian 400 Mawozo gang, Joly ‘Yonyon’ Germine, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole by a United States court after being found guilty of the 2021 kidnapping of American missionaries in Haiti.
This came almost eight months after a jury in the District of Columbia voted to convict Mr Germine on 17 counts related to hostage taking for orchestrating the abduction of 16 Americans, including five children, which he and his group held hostage for 62 days.