A house was reduced to ashes and one person was partially burned on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, on Nossirhel Lhérisson Street, in the Geffrard market area in Jacmel. A house was reduced to ashes and one person was partially burned on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, on Nossirhel Lhérisson Street, in the Geffrard market area in Jacmel.
According to the tenant, Lucie Colin, the fire reportedly broke out after a young gasoline vendor, attempting to escape a police patrol, asked a roommate to store fuel inside the house. “I don’t know where the fire came from, but it was after André Métellus instructed a young woman, who was fleeing the police, to hide the gasoline she was selling in the street, that the house caught fire,” she explained.
The tenant claims she lost everything in the blaze. “I had goods that I bought today. Everything went up in smoke. We couldn’t save anything,” she lamented. Drivers present at the scene, for their part, denounced the resurgence of the fuel black market since the government set new prices. “They store fuel to resell it for up to 300 dollars per gallon,” they said.
André Métellus, partially burned in the fire, is receiving the necessary medical care at the hospital.
