Assailant Shoots U.N. Peacekeeper in Haiti

A French member of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot in the head by an unidentified assailant and critically wounded, U.N. sources said Friday.

Marshall Christian Marginier, 36, a member of the U.N. civilian police force in the western town of Petit Goave, was preparing to go to bed when he was shot in the head Thursday night from a distance of about 10 yards, U.N. spokesman Eric Falt said. Marginier was flown to a hospital in Miami, he said.

A U.N. official in Petit Goave said the attacker left behind a tract stating that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had not kept his promise to pay many of Haiti’s newly demobilized soldiers.