The “must-read” column called “Que se dice” focuses today on possible internal tensions designed to frustrate the Attorney General. According to the columnist, the AG is not the only one who sees something “strange” in the recent attack on two young girls in their mother’s presence after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in front of a major commercial establishment in Santo Domingo. The vicious, unnecessarily brutal nature of the crime caught the attention of Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito, as did the confidence and ease with which the perpetrators acted. The editorialist goes on to say that Dominguez Brito does not want to say something that is in the minds of a lot of people, but his natural prudence and his job cannot permit such freedom, and that is that the wave of crimes over the last couple of weeks is completely out of proportion from what has been the norm. This change in the nature of the crimes and the frequency is being seen as a well planned criminal “offensive” specifically aimed at stalemating the efforts of the new Chief of Police Jose de Jesus Perez Sanchez and force his removal. This would not be the first time that our public safety institution has been hit with internal tensions that have a harmful spillover into the lives of “normal” society.
In another article in Hoy, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the rector of the PUCMM university told reporters that he does not discard a political twist to the current violence that is being experienced. Pointing out that the violence has many facets, the rector mentioned the lack of effective leadership, especially within families, the lack of satisfaction within society, corruption and insecurity as components in the violence.