The relatives of Jose Armando Gil moved from San Francisco de Macoris to Santo Domingo to participate in the March that was organized this Saturday in demand that the authorities join forces and work further on the cases of the disappearances in the Dominican Republic.
With posters in hand and T-shirts with Gil’s photograph, his relatives explained that they participate in the March because they “want to be heard.”
“My uncle is just four months old today that we don’t know about him, he disappeared just two days before his father’s candlelight and it’s still time that the authorities don’t tell us anything about our family member,” said Marianyi Polanco, the taxi driver’s niece.
According to her niece, her uncle went out to work, as usual, he worked as an independent taxi driver and the last person who saw him was his son at 2:00 a.m.
It explained that seven days after the disappearance of José Armando Gil, his car appeared in San Pedro de Macoris and that when they heard the news they went to the place where it was found and that when a colonel named Arcona arrived, he confirmed that the car belonged to his uncle.
According to relatives of the missing taxi driver, the car was located after two people trying to sell it and that they were transferred to San Francisco de Macorisbut they were only detained for three days.
“At once they released them without giving us answers, their relatives, they did not tell us that they were going to release them or anything, we found out that way and when we go (to the prosecutor’s office), the prosecutor tells us that he cannot keep them in jail because there is a law that protects themsaid the niece.
He assured that the fingerprints of the people are in his uncle’s vehicle and that they were caught trying to sell it, for which they do not understand how the authorities They have not done anything to arrest them again.
“They do not give us anything from the call record or anything from the investigation, as if they were hiding something, or as if it was a puppy that got lost,” Gil’s niece said.
