Everything, or almost everything, about the terrible day of February 29, 2024 is being poured over social networks. There's this one-minute and forty-two second video, shot in the vicinity or Canaan, an anarchic urban sprawl at the northern entrance to Port-au-Prince where a fearsome gang led by a man called "Jeff Gwo Lwa" reigns. Images filmed with a smartphone scroll by and a Jack the Ripper, known as "Ti Tét", is staged. Armed with a knife, he quietly opens the buttons on the blood-stained cream shirt of Inspector Junior Marion, one of the police officers killed in the attack on the Bon Repos sub-police station. The skinner pays no attention to the badge emblazoned with the national colors. Nor the rank of the officer killed in the line of duty. He slices off the left ear of the inspector whose sex had previously been severed. "Don't film the face of the person doing this," says a voice-over, as if to preserve the identity of the skinner. Other voices, including that of a teenager, shower the dead man with insults. "Klgt...manman w...Ti volè", spits the boy. Around the corpse, with one leg severed and the right temporal bone slashed open with a machete, other voices are heard. Young men, young women and other teenagers. "It was said not to mutilate him", a female voice can be heard saying a little further on. His interjection does nothing to change this relentlessness. There's no emotion, no inhibition as the macabre but ordinary scene unfolds for this gang of criminals with a record of other people killed, including several dozen members of a Protestant church sent to the slaughter by a pastor. Tears over the still-warm corpse of a friend "He came to see me this morning. We were joking," sobs a young woman over the bloody corpse of another policeman in another 13-second video. "It's the tank," shouts a man in another 41-second video, shot shortly after the assault on the sub-station from which a column of black smoke was billowing. He reports the victory to Chief Jeff Gwo Lwa. When there are no images, there are audios, including that of a policewoman begging for reinforcements from the Croix-des-Bouquets police station. The background noise, the bursts of automatic weapons, told of the violence of the attack on this sub-station, the last bastion against the Canaan gang. Four policemen, including two policewomen, were killed in the attack. A photo of a policewoman with her two sons, including an infant, has circulated on the web. It is not known whether this is the woman who called for backup. At least two people are reported dead and others injured in Bon Repos. However, it is extremely difficult to independently verify this information following coordinated assaults in several parts of the metropolitan area. The assaults were claimed by Jimmy Chérizier, an ex-policeman turned gang leader, who offered his condolences to the families of the policemen and took responsibility on Friday for the acts carried out the previous day as part of actions coordinated by "Vivre ensemble" to overthrow Prime Minister Ariel Henry. This armed takeover by gangs who practice scorched earth politics, is being sold as a necessary act in favor of the people. In 2023, more than 5,000 people were killed in Haiti as a result of gang violence, according to the UN. Thursday was a day of hell for the civilian population. Countless wounded, hospital staff unable to reach their workplaces to treat the wounded, thousands of men, women and children, and schoolchildren fleeing for cover, were the backdrop to the day's events. The video of the Petit Séminaire Collège St Martial students screaming as they took cover is eloquent. As do the photos from Ted Actu. There are the mothers running with their children, two young girls. Fear and terror are written all over their faces. "Schoolgirls and their parents run to escape gunfire from armed gangs in Portail Léogâne, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 29, 2024", wrote the photojournalist, one of the most talented of his generation. At a time when some were reporting the firing of automatic weapons and the presence of heavily armed bandits in the streets, the authorities in charge of public security remained silent, leaving the initiative of communication-intoxication to the gang leaders on Thursday and Friday throughout the day. The government communiqué issued on Friday morning said nothing about the events at Bon Repos. Instead, it referred to the signing of the reciprocity agreement with Kenya, giving the green light to the deployment of the national multinational security support mission. The government would like the deployment to take place as soon as possible. A number of police officers posing as members of a police union, SPNH 17, were seen venting their anger outside the entrance to the PNH headquarters in Clercine on Friday. History repeats itself. There are police officers killed in the line of duty, corpses that are neither recovered nor sought... and this anger expressed far from the front line where these officers fell. But in the meantime, aware that the balance of power could change, the armed gangs, via Mr. Chérizier, announced on Friday that they would continue their movement. Although traffic was possible at certain points, including Plaine du Cul de sac, Drouillard, the airport road, Tabarre and downtown Port-au-Prince, gunfire and acts of vandalism were reported. Shared videos also show that the bandits have methodically continued their expansion. Since the fall and burning of the Portail Léogane sub-station, they have pushed the red line, the "VAR" as the Haitians call it, beyond Grand-Rue. At the heart of their territory are the APN, the port terminal, the oil terminal, the Bank of the Republic of Haiti and the civil prison in Port-au-Prince. Some are not kidding themselves. They fear the worst. They are also amused by Prime Minister Ariel Henry's gaffe of turning Shakespear over in his grave during a ceremony in Kenya. Others, fond of conspiracy theories, let loose. They see the latest events as an "inside job" commissioned by the government from the bandits to speed up the arrival of the multinational security mission to help combat the criminal gangs. While social networks are full of arguments about everything, including the incidental, one thing is certain: the country is sliding downhill, and the worst seems to be just around the corner.