The Dominican Council of Evangelical Unity (Codue) considered this Wednesday as “worrying and unacceptable”, the situation of violence and insecurity that exists in San Felipe, Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Norte, where a shooting in a grocery store It has brought mourning to dozens of families and fear among the residents of the area.
As well as, the event that occurred in La Ureña de Santo Domingo Este, where last Friday the pastor was shot dead. Samuel Nunez Cruzof the Pentecostal Evangelical Church and two other people were injured when they were returning home after having been in a Christian activity.
Feliciano Lacen, Codue president, said that the deceased was aboard a car with six other people, including three girls.
The pastor considers that many of these situations are due to a certain extent to the fact that governments have maintained a social debt for decades.
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He argued that on several occasions the president Louis Abinader he has raised his voice before the population that the issue of citizen security is a priority of his current administration; Therefore, the state control agencies must be activated with greater force, in order to maintain, in every sense of the word, social order and compliance with the law as punishment for those who break it.
He estimates that it is not possible to continue allowing groups to take away peace and peaceful coexistence to the point that the productive work in the area of Villa Mella has to come to a standstill, as has happened since Monday.
He believes that the authorities should work more on the citizen security.
“We must leave behind the discourse and move from theory to practice, comply and enforce the law by controlling crime with strict adherence and unrestricted respect for human rights,” added Lacen Custodio.
At least seven people have been arrested in relation to the death of three men, an incident that occurred on Sunday night at the Nuevo Mundo grocery store, located on Gloria Street, in the Vietnam sector, San Felipe de Villa Mella.
The information was offered this Wednesday by the National Police spokesman, Diego Pesqueirawho also indicated that the investigations are being expanded to offer more details to the population.
He reiterated that the incident “is related to the aspect of social conflict, closely linked to an inheritance.”
