2023-05-09 02:45:00
a creepy 443 percent increase in extortion figures in Barranquilla so far in 2023 they revealed merchant unions, according to official figures.
According to him Inter-union Committee United for the Atlantic, are figures publicly delivered by the Office for Security and Coexistence of the District of Barranquilla, using the Mebar Police as a source. However, the union also points out that there is an underreporting that speaks of an increase of more than 700 percent.
It points out that the increase in extortion between January and April of this year is 443% compared to the same period in 2022, and that all other scourges show an increase, such as theft from people, residences and motorcycles.
The Inter-union Committee United for the Atlantic launched an SOS to the local and national authorities so that they develop other strategies that really counteract the insecurity in the city and the department.
“Facts to regret continue to occur in the city and the metropolitan area, such as dismembered people, murders, massacres, thefts and extortions, for which the Committee raises the alarm, so that the National and local Government, along with other competent authorities Take control of what is clearly being lost today”, indicates the union pronouncement.
A 443 percent increase in extortions “It should keep us all in a state of maximum alert, and if we add the underreporting that is handled by the unions, of 700 percent, it is to have ‘the creeps'” stated Zandra Lopezunion leader.
He ended by saying that “Gradually, under everyone’s noses, over the past decade, trade has become a source of income for criminal and delinquent gangs”.
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