Mrs. Moise was found bleeding on the floor next to the body of her husband, Jovenel Moise, on July 7.
But she survived the mysterious attack — and is now lighting a fire under the search to bring the killers to justice.
I want the United Nations Security Council’s help to find those people,” she said.
“At that time, I didn’t even think that they were going to be able to get into the room where we were, because we had about 30 or 50 security guards (at the house),” she said.
The attackers never addressed the president directly, and Mr. Moise said nothing to them in the moments before his execution, according to his wife.
Even after the attack, the security guards charged with protecting Haiti’s first family never came.
It was a maid who eventually found Mrs. Moise in the blood-drenched bedroom, and whom she asked to bring one of her husband’s ties to serve as a tourniquet for her arm, she said.
As she left her home in the dark early morning, Moise said she was struck by the absence of any of the usual guards on the compound grounds.
“I believe the president died with the hope that his security team would come,” she said.
Haitian authorities have previously said that not a single guard was injured as the attackers broke through the main gate, crossed the compound, breached the front door, and sought out the president’s bedroom.
What the presidential security guards know, saw, or did are central questions in the ongoing investigation.
What the Haitian people need, she said, is an independent investigation run by the UN, and potentially for the case to one day reach the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
“If these people have been there for months and we had a working intelligence system, the president would’ve known,” Moise said.
“And because of their power, I’m not sure that the current investigation can find answers,” she said.
