Martine Moïse landed at the Toussaint Louverture international airport on Saturday. She spent the last 10 days hospitalized in Miami being treated for injuries resulting from the July 7th assassination of her husband Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Mrs. Moïse was greeted on the tarmac by Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph and other Haitian officials.
Surrounded by security agents and wearing a bulletproof vest the widow was wearing all black. Her arm was still in a sling.
According to a Friday government announcement, the President will be laid to rest on July 23 in a state funeral. He will be buried in the historic city of Cap-Haïtien. And his widow has returned home to prepare for her husband’s funeral.
The Prime Minister’s office tweeted out photos of her arrival in Port-au-Prince.
La 1ère dame @martinejmoise vient tout juste d'arriver en Haïti dans le cadre des préparatifs liés aux funérailles nationales du Pdt @moisejovenel. Elle a été accueillie à l'AITL par le pm @claudejoseph03 . pic.twitter.com/q7AokC05mP
— Frantz Exantus (@FrantzExantusHT) July 17, 2021
Widow still in shock
This week, she tweeted: “This pain will never pass.”
Mrs Moïse has made few public comments since the attack. Haitian police are blaming a large group of commandos and foreign mercenaries, many of them Colombians.
