Shooting in Santiago: Faride Raful orders suspension of agents involved and warns “There will be no impunity”
Santo Domingo. – The Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, ordered the immediate suspension of the Agents involved in recent registered events in Santiagowhich have generated concern in different sectors of society.
The agents have been made available of the Public Ministryin accordance with the procedures established by law, to investigate your action in an exhaustive and independent manner.
“The General Directorate of the PN has arranged the immediate suspension of the acting agents, who have already been made available to the Public Ministry”Said Minister Raful through X (Twitter) account.
From the Ministry of Interior and Police @Mininteriordd In relation to the events that occurred in Santiago, communication:
The General Directorate of the PN has arranged the immediate suspension of the acting agents, who have already been made available to the Public Ministry.
Likewise, the official said that the Dominican government will assume all the Responsibilities that the process determines, and that these types of situations should serve to strengthen the citizen trust in institutions responsible for guaranteeing security and respect for fundamental rights.
About the dejected
The deceased were identified by the Police as Edward Bernardo Peña Rodríguez, Carlos Enrique Guzmán Navarro (El Charly or Charli Chasc), José Vladimir Valerio Estévez, Elvis Antonio Martínez Rodríguez and Julio Alberto Gómez, who died while receiving medical attention at the Doctor Cabral and Báez Hospital, in Santiago.
The incident occurred in a place located on Olympic Avenue, in the La Barranquita sector, of Santiagoin which, as the police reported, there was a shooting between the group of civilians and their agents, in which Cape Yohandy Encarnación was injured, who receives medical care at a health center in that province. He also indicated that a man whom they pursued.
According to police reports, the five men integrated a dangerous criminal organization dedicated to the sicariatotraffic of Weapons, kidnappings and Compulsive charges linked to drug trafficking, according to the preliminary report issued by the authorities.
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