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06-15-2010, 02:30 PM
The Dominican Alliance against Corruption (ADOCCO) has called on President Leonel Fernandez to order an investigation into claims by journalist Marino Zapete that his life is in danger.
Zapete produces the TV program El Despertador on Antena Latina, Channel 7, and El Jarabe, on TeleRadio America.
ADOCCO's Julio Cesar de la Rosa Tiburcio said that on Monday, after one of his shows, Zapete received an envelope with a CD detailing an alleged plan to murder him. In the CD, Zapete is warned that his telephones and emails are being intercepted, that he is being followed, and that his life is in danger.
ADOCCO called on to Dominican society to be empowered and not to allow that the rule of law, for which so many have given their lives, should be subverted by bad Dominicans who want to use public institutions for personal feuds that do not stand up to criticism in the press or from civil society institutions.
As reported in Clave Digital, on Thursday Zapete denounced that the chief of the Police, General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin had visited media executives and owners and told them that Zapete could suffer an attempt for the many fronts he had opened with his criticism. Guzman said that he was concerned that if there was an attempt against Zapete he could be blamed because of the constant claims that Zapete has made against his work at the head of the Police. Zapete said that with the comments, the chief of the Police wants to evade responsibility in the case of any attempt that might be made against him for denouncing murders in so-called exchanges of gunfire between alleged criminals and the police in the barrios. Zapete has criticized these incidents, saying they are in violation of Dominican law because there is no death penalty in the DR.
On Monday, Zapete delivered proof of his claim that Police chief Guzman Fermin wants to kill him. Upon leaving National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra's office, Zapete said that the prosecutor was not interested in investigating the case, and that he does not trust that government department. Zapete has accused Major General Guzman Fermin of "planning people's executions and murders every day." He said that President Leonel Fernandez would be responsible for his physical safety if he keeps Guzman Fermin in the post.
Zapete said that the district prosecutor and general prosecutor Radhames Jimenez are unlikely to investigate the chief of the Police, even if they had proof in the case. He said that chief of the police governs the prosecutor general, the justice and even the President of the Republic.
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/6/14/329926/Zapete... (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/6/14/329926/Zapete-da-fiscal-pruebasatentado-implica-jefe-PN)
www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/6/... (http://www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/6/27046/ADOCCO-insta-a-Leonel-Fernandez-investigar-denuncia-de-atentado-contra)
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Zapete produces the TV program El Despertador on Antena Latina, Channel 7, and El Jarabe, on TeleRadio America.
ADOCCO's Julio Cesar de la Rosa Tiburcio said that on Monday, after one of his shows, Zapete received an envelope with a CD detailing an alleged plan to murder him. In the CD, Zapete is warned that his telephones and emails are being intercepted, that he is being followed, and that his life is in danger.
ADOCCO called on to Dominican society to be empowered and not to allow that the rule of law, for which so many have given their lives, should be subverted by bad Dominicans who want to use public institutions for personal feuds that do not stand up to criticism in the press or from civil society institutions.
As reported in Clave Digital, on Thursday Zapete denounced that the chief of the Police, General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin had visited media executives and owners and told them that Zapete could suffer an attempt for the many fronts he had opened with his criticism. Guzman said that he was concerned that if there was an attempt against Zapete he could be blamed because of the constant claims that Zapete has made against his work at the head of the Police. Zapete said that with the comments, the chief of the Police wants to evade responsibility in the case of any attempt that might be made against him for denouncing murders in so-called exchanges of gunfire between alleged criminals and the police in the barrios. Zapete has criticized these incidents, saying they are in violation of Dominican law because there is no death penalty in the DR.
On Monday, Zapete delivered proof of his claim that Police chief Guzman Fermin wants to kill him. Upon leaving National District prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra's office, Zapete said that the prosecutor was not interested in investigating the case, and that he does not trust that government department. Zapete has accused Major General Guzman Fermin of "planning people's executions and murders every day." He said that President Leonel Fernandez would be responsible for his physical safety if he keeps Guzman Fermin in the post.
Zapete said that the district prosecutor and general prosecutor Radhames Jimenez are unlikely to investigate the chief of the Police, even if they had proof in the case. He said that chief of the police governs the prosecutor general, the justice and even the President of the Republic.
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/6/14/329926/Zapete... (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/6/14/329926/Zapete-da-fiscal-pruebasatentado-implica-jefe-PN)
www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/6/... (http://www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/6/6/27046/ADOCCO-insta-a-Leonel-Fernandez-investigar-denuncia-de-atentado-contra)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)