National Deputy Ginnette Bournigal (Modern Revolutionary Party – Puerto Plata) and her husband engineer Miguel Angel Jiménes Messón were victims of robbery on Sunday, 23 February 2020 in the afternoon in Piantini neighborhood. The legislator suffered a slight fracture in her wrist when she was dragged for several meters when a thief on a motorcycle drove by. Her husband was hit with a blunt object. Her husband had to get sutures to his forehead. Her neck chain broke and fell to the ground, where it was recovered.
Bournigal said on Sol 106.5FM that when she dismounted from her vehicle, a man passing on a motorcycle grabbed her by the neck and dragged her for several meters along Federico Geraldino street, almost to the corner of José Amado Soler. The congresswoman was in Santo Domingo visiting a daughter.
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25 February 2020