Impunity once again paraded through the tourist zone of Playa del Carmen on Thursday night. While authorities boast of millions in investments, a lone gunman riddled the facade of the restaurant “Mi Rinconcito Colombiano” with bullets, making it clear that omission is also corruption.
The Complaint: A City Surveillanced Only on Paper
Citizens are asking with justified indignation: Where are the 500 patrol cars, the helicopter, and the state-of-the-art C4 cameras? It is outrageous that in the heart of the tourist destination, a man can unload his weapon and flee as if nothing happened.
This scenario of incompetence bitterly recalls the day of “El Mencho’s” capture, when more than 10 vehicles were set on fire in the city and not a single person was arrested. Today, history repeats itself: the “generator of violence” acts with complete impunity in the face of a surveillance system that seems to be merely decorative.
The Complaint: A City Surveillanced Only on Paper
Citizens are asking with righteous indignation: Where are the 500 patrol cars, the helicopter, and the state-of-the-art C4 cameras? It is unheard of that in the heart of the tourist destination, someone can unload his weapon and flee as if nothing happened.
This scenario of incompetence bitterly recalls the day of “El Mencho’s” capture, when more than 10 vehicles were set ablaze in the city and not a single person was arrested. Today, history repeats itself: the “generator of violence” acts with complete impunity in the face of a surveillance system that seems to be nothing more than decoration.
The Complaint: A City Surveillanced Only on Paper ### The Facts: Terror on Tenth Avenue
Around 9:15 p.m., at the intersection of Tenth Avenue and 20th and 22nd Streets, panic gripped tourists and workers. A slim gunman wearing a black jacket stood in front of the establishment and opened fire in cold blood.
- Outcome: Miraculously, there was only property damage, as the bullets hit the building and not the patrons.
- Reaction: The criminal escaped with absolute ease, mocking a police deployment that always arrives when the perpetrator is already far away.
Extortion: The Cancer No One Stops
Initial investigations confirm what everyone knows: intimidation through “protection money”. Businesses in the downtown area are under the yoke of organized crime, while new patrol cars and air support are conspicuously absent at the time of the incident.
- ### The C4 and the State Attorney General’s Office: “Post-Mortem” Operations
As usual, the Municipal Police and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) arrived only to cordon off the area and collect the shell casings. Cameras are useless without an immediate response to capture those responsible.
“We don’t want more photos of new patrol cars, we want results. If they have the equipment and don’t use it to arrest criminals, they are complicit by omission.” — Widespread sentiment among local business owners.
“AS OF NOW: The perpetrator remains at large. There are no arrests, no trace of the helicopter, and the C4 continues “analyzing” videos of an escape that everyone saw, but no one stopped.”
Source: xplayatv
