Arequipa could be the territory of a fierce war between Colombians and Venezuelans as a result of the appearance of two videos on social networks.
Indeed, the first video was of six citizens, who say they are Colombians, armed with guns and with their faces covered, yesterday blamed criminal gangs made up of Venezuelans for the shootings and contract killings carried out in the White City.
Correo reported that the conflict between gangs is due to the fact that Venezuelan mafias extort Colombian citizens under the “drop by drop” modality, this for the assumption of giving them protection, placing stickers in their businesses. In addition, the dispute is to control different zones and collect quotas from foreign merchants.
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Given this, “In Arequipa a wave of excesses has been unleashed caused by people arriving from Venezuela, who are in charge of sowing fear and chaos. Being ringleaders of prostitution, pimping, drug sales and extortion. (…) It is a fact that these people have messed with our compatriots who live in a peaceful way and charge them quotas by drop by drop”, they pointed out.
The hooded men revealed that they know the people in charge of the crimesThey even urged the Police to disrupt these gangs.
The most worrying thing is that hours later, last night, also for social networks another video appeared of a person who would be Venezuelan showing a rifle and responding to the threats of the Colombians.
In the filming he manages to say that they line up, he mentions Arequipa, he also shows a newspaper with yesterday’s date and assures “the rifles are out, lead for silver”.
FOR THE GENERAL OF THE PNP, ORGANIZED CRIME IS COMPLEX
The head of the IX Macro Police Region of Arequipa, PNP General Víctor Zanabria Angulo, said that in Arequipa there are at least 200 thousand foreigners that rotate in the different regions of the south. He indicated that a large part is on public roads, others are engaged in sex work and criminal activities.
Regarding the latest recorded events, he explained that the organized crime crime is complex to investigate, since it is necessary to test its structure, then the leader and its members. “It is complex because to determine all of this requires special investigation processes that are not immediate, if they are not investigations of one or two years, but we are investigating in the same way,” he said.
