NewsWhore
06-07-2010, 02:00 PM
Founder of the AMET force in the DR, engineer Hamlet Hermann says that the case of the attempted murder against news commentator Jordi Veras Rodriguez in Santiago, is another example of the complicity to the government with crime. "Assassins for hire seem acceptable in these times, despite the modernity that President Leonel Fernandez claims for the nation. And what is happening in Santiago where criminality and impunity have grown exorbitantly?" he asks. "In this country the authorities pretend to be deaf and live in a state of absolute denial," he writes in Hoy. "Those that are so anxious to hold on to power are not measuring the consequences of these crimes against the honest and serious sectors in the country. This criminal attack against Jordi Veras Rodriguez, son of lawyer Ramon Antonio Veras, is an attempt against all of us who combat government corruption and the growing misery, despite the fallacies touted by the Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund," he writes.
He says that the murders that are happening in plain daylight can only be explained by the "absolute impunity that someone has guaranteed for local and foreign assassins by contract."
"And that is why we cannot abandon the idea that crime is on the rise in the DR thanks to the impunity that comes forth from the complicity of military, police, judges and government officers in the commission of all kinds of crimes," he concludes.
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He says that the murders that are happening in plain daylight can only be explained by the "absolute impunity that someone has guaranteed for local and foreign assassins by contract."
"And that is why we cannot abandon the idea that crime is on the rise in the DR thanks to the impunity that comes forth from the complicity of military, police, judges and government officers in the commission of all kinds of crimes," he concludes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)