2025-12-27

CASUALTY TARGETING Security guards at the Tabarre market discovered explosive materials made from gas cylinders hidden inside the facility on the night of December 25 to December 26 2025. The National Police confirmed that terrorists had carefully planned the operation intending to start a fire and reduce the market to ashes during peak holiday shopping season. The judge of paix conducted legal inspection after PNH was alerted. The attack was designed to kill dozens or hundreds of vendors and customers destroy livelihoods of small merchants and terrorize the population into abandoning commercial activity. The foiled attack represents a strategic shift from territorial control to economic warfare and mass casualty terrorism. Gangs targeted a commercial center during the holiday period to maximize casualties and economic damage. This occurred two days December 27, 2025 after the December 23 Coast Guard maritime attack on La Gonave-bound vessels indicating gangs are expanding operational domains beyond territorial control. Previous attacks targeted healthcare infrastructure including the December 24 General Hospital assault and December 17 Bernard Mevs Hospital incident demonstrating multi-domain strategy. Tabarre has been the site of repeated gang attacks in November 2025 with more than 600 people displaced following armed assaults on November 13-14. The area remains contested territory where gangs attempt to establish presence through violence against civilian populations. The use of explosive devices made from gas cylinders shows tactical sophistication and intent to cause maximum destruction. The fact that security guards discovered the materials before detonation prevented what could have been one of the deadliest single attacks in the current crisis.