The recent discussion between a general of the Armed Forces and two agents of the Directorate General of Traffic Safety and Land Transport (Digesett), brings to the table again the past conflicts between the members of both institutions due to traffic problems. “There is no rank that goes beyond the law,” President Luis Abinader said yesterday, and that phrase applies to what happened two days ago to General José Manuel Frías Rodríguez. The soldier reprimanded two Digesett agents for venerating him for the sign he was showing, while they were trying to control his vehicle for violating the Traffic Law, which was parked on the bicycle lane of the national district. Counting this event, the journalistic records indicate that in this year 2020 there were at least four incidents between the members of the two institutions mentioned above.
Recent brawl The latest brawl took place on December 15, when a Dominican Republic Air Force (FARD) sergeant attacked a Digesett agent when he tried to fine him. The incident took place on Abraham Lincoln Boulevard, at the corner of Gustavo Mejía Ricart and was known through a video broadcast on social networks, where it is observed when the driver stops in the middle of the boulevard, slaps the agent, an action that resulted in who both pulled out their guns, but later the driver got into his vehicle and tried to escape the scene. Less than two months earlier, on October 20, a video broadcast on social media revealed a defiant and arrogant attitude of the retired General of the Armed Forces, Flavio Jesús Soto Jiménez, who verbally attacked a soldier who asked him your documents for committing a traffic violation. Much of the conversation was affected by the retired general’s outbursts to the agent, who refused to hand over the documents, despite committing a traffic violation when he parked his vehicle on a sidewalk.
Mid-road discussion While on June 1, according to newspaper records, a confusing traffic incident took place between several soldiers and a traffic officer, after passers-by attended a discussion for Digesett to give preferential passage to a road . Although there were never official versions of the event, witnesses to the event indicated that around 10:00 a.m. a group of “guards” tried to get Digesett to give way to a specific road, which led to a discussion and a “fight” between the members of both institutions.
“Revenge” In 2017, journalistic records date to an alleged “revenge” that members of the military planned to “take revenge on comrades-in-arms” who were allegedly mistreated by a then Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) agent.
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He recalls when some media outlets focused on an alleged meeting on April 11, 2017 at kilometer 9 of the Duarte highway, where the army began planning a “revenge” against the AMET agents of that time, while they were dressed in civilians. on the streets. A few days earlier, a video show showed when AMET agents threw a FARD soldier to the ground to arrest him. A spokesman for AMET at the time explained that the conflict was caused by a “resistance” of the detainee, who was preparing to cross the Las Américas tunnel without a helmet or documents.