Monsignor Victor Masalles, bishop of the diocese of Bani, blasted that a National Police officer posed as a priest to end the abduction of a woman and her daughter in Cotuí. The kidnapper had asked to speak to a priest. The impersonation ended in tragedy, with the policeman shooting the man to put an end to the situation.
The Police said they a real priest was not called in because they feared his life would be at risk. “The man was not up to turning himself in,” he was pointing a gun at the mother and child and “we had to act,” argued the police.
Masalles tweeted, asking if in the future a person would ask to see a priest?
The dead man is José Antonio Reyes Uyola (El Gordo), who resided in the municipality of Maimón, province of Monseñor Nouel. According to the Police, Reyes was involved in shooting a 17-year-old boy before abducting the woman and her daughter.
When fleeing from a police patrol, Reyes Uyola entered a house in the community of La Yagua, in Cotuí, where he took the house owner and her minor daughter hostage.
The police action against “El Gordo” was captured on video, which clearly shows the moment he was shot in the face by the policeman posing as a priest.
In an editorial today in Diario Libre, executive editor Adriano Miguel Tejada says the policeman/priest acted beyond what is his duty.
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9 August 2020