Local October 3, 2011 - 12:02 pm

Man comes across the border, claims to be Haiti president’s son

Santo Domingo.- In the village Los Cocos, near the southwestern coastal town Enriquillo lives a young man by the name of Patric Alfredo Martelly Garó, who claims to be the son of Haitian president Michelle Martelly.

Quoted by news source listin.com.do, the young man said he was born in Haiti, his father is a musician, last name Martelly, and that he came to Dominican Republic from the Haitian community of Petionville.

Patric Martelly said his mother died 22 days after she arrived, very ill, from Haiti, where they had lived during 10 years and where she had met the singer-musician Michel Martelly.

Days after arriving, Patric Martelly said, the woman by the name of Maria Gue, of Haitian nationality, came looking for him, adding that his mother had warned him that Gue, allegedly a close friend of president Martelly, would come looking for him.

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