Although the police were unable to respond to the massacre in Wharf Jérémie last weekend, despite having a base in Delmas 3, a firm response to the atrocity against the population is planned, according to the PNH’s Deputy Spokesperson, Lionel Lazarre. The PNH has not yet provided figures for the massacre carried out by Micanor's gang. According to preliminary reports, nearly 200 people, most of them elderly, were killed in Wharf Jérémie.

In Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, the retaliatory attacks by armed gangs on the population during the night of Tuesday, December 10 to Wednesday, December 11 caused widespread distress. Lionel Lazarre stated that the Artibonite Departmental Directorate of the PNH has been instructed to prevent armed gangs from committing further criminal acts against the population in Lower Artibonite.