Santo Domingo.– Residents of the sector Cancino Inside expressed their concern and fear about a growing practice among minors and young adults that, hooded and carrying pellet gunsthey walk the streets of the place to confront each other, as part of what they describe as a “new entertainment.”
According to the community members, the participants travel to high speed on motorcycles and vehiclescovered with hoods and simulating operations or chaseswhich keeps families in the sector in anxiety, especially during the afternoons and nightswhen confrontations are more frequent.
The complainants warn that this practice represents a high risk to physical integrity both those involved and bystanders, due to the possibility that the plastic projectiles impact the face or eyes, which could cause serious injuriesincluding the vision loss.
Likewise, they assured that many of the young people who participate in these actions They belong to bands or groups known as “nations.”which they stated increases the tension and danger of the confrontations.
The residents, who requested to keep their identities confidential for security reasonsthey called on the Minister of the Interior and Police, Faride Rafuland at General Director of the National Police, Major General Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peraltato intervene urgently through prevention, surveillance and disarmament operations in the area, as well as the identification and subjugation of the alleged ringleaders.
