The Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, An­to­nio Guter­res, has con­demned the week­end mur­ders of at least 40 peo­ple dur­ing a string of bru­tal in­ci­dents and on­go­ing gang vi­o­lence that have plagued the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

In a state­ment, Guter­res ex­pressed “heart­felt con­do­lences” to the vic­tims’ fam­i­lies and urged Hait­ian au­thor­i­ties to pur­sue jus­tice.

“The Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al is alarmed by the lev­els of vi­o­lence rock­ing Haiti,” said Stéphane Du­jar­ric,” the UN spokesman, adding “he calls on Mem­ber States to ex­pe­dite sup­port for the Multi­na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sup­port mis­sion to as­sist the Hait­ian Na­tion­al Po­lice.”