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Late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse Laid To Rest Friday

July 23, 2021 / 12:27 PM EDT / CBS Miami

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Haiti laid its late president Jovenel Moïse to rest on Friday amid protests from angry supporters of the slain leader in his hometown.

Moïse was gunned down in his home in Port-au-Prince on July 7. His wife was also seriously hurt and treated in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Overnight on Thursday, workers set up stages, lights and paved a brick road to Moïse's mausoleum on a dusty plot of several acres enclosed by high walls in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.

Armed police take cover near a barricade set on fire by protesters demanding justice for the assassinated President Jovenel Moise stands, in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Demonstrations after a memorial service for Moise turned violent on Thursday afternoon with protesters shooting into the air, throwing rocks and overturning heavy concrete barricades next to the seashore as businesses closed and people took cover. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Friday's funeral comes a day after violent demonstrations hit neighborhoods in Cap-Haitien as groups of men fired shots into the air and blocked some roads with blazing tires.

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