DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Minister of Interior and Police Faride Raful and the director general of the National Police, Major General Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta were not available this Monday, 6 October 2025 for their customary post-Security Joint Task Force meeting press conference.

The unusual no-show comes amid explosive revelations in the “La Barranquita case,” where five individuals were killed during a police operation. The Attorney General Office Public Ministry’s request for coercive measures against eleven police agents directly contradicted the initial official police version of events.

The prosecution investigative file reveals that none of the five victims fired a weapon, a finding that shatters the police’s original claim that the men “faced agents with gunfire.”

According to the Public Ministry, autopsy results, ballistic analyses, and gunshot residue tests all confirm that the victims...