The mysterious group of suspects linked to the assassination of Haiti’s president gathered for several meetings in the months before the killing to plot a new government, The New York Times reports. Haitian authorities have contended that the killing was carried out in order to install Christian Emmanuel Sanon—a self-described doctor who lived on-and-off in Florida for decades—as the new president. The Times spoke to several attendees of meetings between the suspects, but they say assassination was never brought up. Parnell Duverger, a retired Florida professor, told the Times: “I would have stopped attending if anyone mentioned a coup, let alone murder... I keep asking myself, there must be something wrong with me for being so naïve.” Frantz Gilot, a United Nations consultant who attended the meetings, was asked if assassination was mentioned. He responded: “Never!!! never!!! Never!!! ... Sanon introduced himself as a potential candidate.” The interviewees confirmed that James Solages, an American of Haitian descent who has been arrested in connection with the assassination, attended the gatherings.