Santo Domingo.-The Ministry of Defense reported last night that the Dominican driver Johan Antonio de la Rosa, who had been kidnapped in Haiti by the 400 Mowozo gang while transporting 37 passengers, was received in the afternoon at the El Carrizal border crossing in Elías Piña. of that country from Santo Domingo.
De la Rosa, 32 years old and the only Dominican on the bus belonging to the Haitian transport company, Capital Coach Line, explained to the authorities that the crew members were dismounted by members of an armed gang and were later forced to board another vehicle to which they were taken. He ran out of fuel, at which time the driver, the flight attendant and several of the Haitian passengers managed to escape from their captors.
After the fact, De la Rosa and the bus stewardess appeared at the facilities of the aforementioned transport company in Haiti.
The flight attendant was injured by a bullet during the incident, for which, after receiving first aid in Haiti, she was transferred to a center in the country for medical attention.
Dominican truckers who carry loads of materials or food to Haiti and passenger bus drivers have been the target of kidnappings for gangs that for several years have sown terror and divided Haitian territory by imposing their own rules.
Last year, several Dominicans experienced difficult times after being taken prisoner by gangsters who are dedicated to demanding money for those captured, and among those kidnapped, at the end of April, was the diplomat Carlos Guillén Tatis, agricultural counselor at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic. in Port au Prince.
After several months without knowing any kidnapped Dominican in the neighboring nation of the Dominican Republic, the authorities reported that Johan Antonio de la Rosa, 32, was kidnapped, who was driving a Capital Coach Line bus with 28 passengers and They were kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo gang, in the area known as Croix-des-Bouquets.
Yesterday it was announced that it was the driver’s first trip, and according to a company source consulted by EFE, passenger buses are always escorted by police officers, but apparently, on this occasion, the criminals mocked police surveillance to carry out the robbery.
“For some time, a police reinforcement has been accompanying us through the dangerous areas. They told us to go ahead and they would wait for us further up. It was while the vehicle was advancing to meet them when the kidnapping took place,” the source said.
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The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported yesterday that in the last 72 hours it has been informed of the kidnapping of at least six people, including four women, in various places in the country’s metropolitan area.
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From the Capital Coach Line company have been attacked by armed bandits from the 400 Mawozo group.
