A young man, identified as Juan Daniel Disla, has uploaded a video to YouTube where he explains he was the client in the barbershop that was raided by a prosecutor and several agents from the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) to plant drugs and then press charges. The case became a national trending topic after the owner of the barbershop uploaded a video showing the DNCD inspection of the barbershop.
In this second video on the case, Disla says he was sent to have a haircut, and told to drop the drugs on the floor. He stated that he was called on Friday night, 2 August 2019 and was told to go to the market where he was met by a grey car and inside was the prosecutor, Lisset Núñez, and people from the DNCD. He said that Núñez was an accomplice to everything that went on in the barbershop.
Other young men in the area have stated that planting drugs is a frequent practice on the part of the DNCD agents.
Meanwhile, the DNCD and the Attorney General Office say that the owner of the barbershop could be tried for defamation if he does not produce evidence of the accusations he made in the YouTube video he uploaded to show the inspection raid by the DNCD agents and the Montecristi prosecutor. They say the case is under investigation. The Attorney General Office has confiscated the surveillance videos on the case.
Local news commentators have expressed concern that the president of the DNCD was mostly concerned that the video had affected the “credibility” of the DNCD.
Lawyer Felix Portes announced he would be carrying the case for the barber owner Otoniel Gutiérrez and Odabel Montana.
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6 August 2019