The barber Roger Ccari Alarcón (46), is one more victim of the extreme violence that has been unleashed in Arequipa groups of foreigners, specifically Venezuelan citizens, who are linked to prostitution, drug sales and contract killings.
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On Tuesday night, the owner of the R93 Barber barbershop received two bullet wounds, one in the arm and the other in the chest and in the door of his store, which is located in front of the Gratersa Shopping Center in the José Luis Bustamante district and Rivero.
Based on the versions of the witnesses and what caused the shooting, the investigations indicate that the shooter was a Venezuelan citizen.
Attack
The victim’s relatives recounted that minutes after 7:00 p.m., Roger Ccari received a visit from a friend with whom he had previously worked.
Before entering the premises, the young woman had an altercation with a group of women of Venezuelan nationality who are dedicated to prostitution. According to merchants in the area, since October of last year they have been occupying the surrounding streets.
The young visitor would have claimed that they were not letting her friend work by blocking the door of the barbershop.
Roger Ccari went outside to intervene and avoid a fight, going back into his business with his friend.
After half an hour, the young woman’s partner went to the barbershop to pick her up and when the woman got into the car, two shots were heard and after them the barber fell to the ground wounded.
The little that the witnesses could see is that a subject of medium height dressed in a pink polo shirt, light blue jeans and features characteristic of Venezuelan citizens, fled the scene aboard a car, taking the weapon. Apparently the foreign women would have warned the gunman of the altercation they had and he waited for her to come out behind her friend again to shoot Roger Ccari who was helped by his relatives to the Honorio Delgado hospital, where he was admitted to the Care Unit Intensive. His situation is stable and the doctors were going to evaluate if he would operate on him.
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VIOLENCE
PNP General Víctor Zanabria Angulo, head of the IX Macrepol, has stated on several occasions that the most violent crimes that have occurred in Arequipa (three Venezuelans riddled with bullets since October 2021) are linked to criminal organizations made up of foreigners who are dedicated to to the micro-commercialization of drugs, contract killings and the exploitation of sex work, and the attack against Roger Cari is no exception.
From the Prosecutor’s Office they agree with General Zanabria’s version and suspect that it is very likely that the gunman is of Venezuelan nationality. “We don’t know if he is a friend or a guy who runs the girls, but what is clear is that the acts of violence that they are unleashing are at the same level as those that are registered in the capital and it is worrying,” said a source from the Prosecutor’s Office consulted by Mail.
FUNCTIONS
Mayor Omar Candia urged the Police and Immigration to act and fulfill their duties to deport foreigners who commit crimes and probably do not have documents.
He asked the Police to do intelligence work to identify those who in recent days caused anxiety with the most outstanding events such as murders.
“Yes, I believe that efforts must be redoubled, there are police departments that are precisely in charge of seeing the sale of drugs, homicides, police intelligence, so it is important that they can act,” he said.
In the face of the crime wave, the panic button was also activated in the public transport service, but Candia stated that only the Transcayma company uses the system that allows the alarm to be activated to notify the Police of an emergency such as an assault inside the a bus.
The mayor pointed out that the intention is that the remaining 9 business units of the Integrated Transport System have this instrument, but progress is slow.
Regarding the Serenazgo Sin Fronteras that was proposed in 2015, the Arequipa authority dismissed its reactivation in 2022 as a response to the crime wave, because in its opinion, it would not work, due to the fact that several authorities are more devoted to their campaigns. electoral.
Although he did not specify names, he stated that it is difficult for it to work in an election year. It should be remembered that there are several district mayors who aspire to the provincial chair, including the mayor of Cerro Colorado, Benigno Cornejo, La Joya, Gilmar Luna, Yanahuara, Anghelo Huerta, among others.
