Andres Martinez Casares is behind the lens as Senator Jean Marie Ralph Féthière wields his gun Andres Martinez Casares, the Reuters photographer who took the dramatic pictures of Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opening fire outside the country’s parliament on Monday, tells the BBC how he reacted to being caught up in the incident. Mr Féthière opened fire as he left parliament in the capital, Port-au-Prince, claiming he was defending himself from protesters. “I followed a group of opposition supporters who went to the [car park] of the Haitian Senate and parliament and I saw them shouting at Féthière, who got into the car,” Martinez said. “I moved to the side as I thought they could drive aggressively to leave. “But some men went to the door and started shouting again, and then Féthière came out and pointed the gun in the air and fired some shots, and then [fired] to the ground.” “It was a matter of a few seconds, my pictures were taken in two or three [seconds]; there was just enough time to go from one side of the car to the other and frame some quick pictures.” Martinez says he puts the fact he managed […]
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