The MOBS are back in DR

Après un moment de pause, les dominicains sont encore à la poursuite d'haïtiens


Santiago.- Immigration inspectors helped by Army troops and Police agents yesterday combed the municipal district Canca La Reina, Moca (north), where machete-wielding inhabitants look for Haitians who live there to avenge the murder of a Dominican merchant by several immigrants of the neighboring country, who stole his money, cell phone and motorcycle.
“We are here to provide protection for the Haitians, because we will not allow people to take justice in their own hand and much less against those who had nothing to do with a crime that others must pay for,” said an unidentified Immigration official.
Since Saturday Canca la Reina’s inhabitants, machetes in hand, roam the streets in search of several Haitians accused of killing Jesus Rivas Polanco, 30, and warn that wherever they find a Haitian they’ll lynch them in revenge. The tense situation has forced the Haitians who live there to go into hiding.
Yesterday the Police seized several knives, machetes and bats from several people to prevent the violence unleashed by Rivas’ murder, which the inhabitants and the Police say was to steal his cell phone, 10,000 pesos and a motorcycle.


source: http://dominicantoday.com