Killing another on Costa Rican countryside
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January 6, 2016 09:07
Shortly after Christmas was on the plantation La Flecha in the province of Puntarenas, the Dutch couple Hans Snelders and Sita Dhawtal been killed. The Public Prosecutor in Costa Rica is still working to determine the cause of death, though it seems Snelders according to director Walter Espinoza of the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) 'a blow to have had on the head. '
A Dutch police team arrived in Costa Rica to help in the investigation.,, The couple did not have much contact with the environment '', says Espinoza.,, Therefore we understand that they were engaged, both here and in the Netherlands. For this purpose we can use well the Dutch support. '' Snelders and his younger partner lived for eight years in the country.
According to Espinoza Costa Rica takes the matter seriously. Detectives from the capital San José help and sniffer dogs have been deployed to catch something of a track. Because the plantation near the town of Sardinal is far from the civilized world, the police has no witnesses, nor certainty on the motive.
Long series of murders
However, the massacre is part of a long series. It is the province of Puntarenas, southwest of San José, is- according to local media- a veritable nest of crime. Last May was on a coffee farm 60 kilometers away from the Dutch teak plantation a complete family slaughtered with two children. Died early September a 86-year-old Cuban immigrant violence on his plantation. Squatters then pulled on his estate.
The coastal town of Esterillos Oeste, thirty kilometers from the Dutch scene is set upon by squatters. Around two hundred names mid-November, a piece of land up near a housing complex duration. Then rob several US and Canadian residents violent. The US Embassy in Costa Rica sent immediately thereafter a general warning to her compatriots.
Mayor Freddy Garro of the municipality Parrita dared not tackle the illegal invasion at that.,, It was too dangerous to perform with so few officers, '' the mayor apologized opposite
The Tico Times. Meanwhile reached the number of murders in Costa Rica last year, a sad record of more than 530 to just 4. 8 million inhabitants- still lower than in the rest of Central America.
Media in San Jose speculate that the couple Snelders also a victim of robbery. Possibly the perpetrators would have coined a large amount of money at home would have been after the sale of a plot on the plantation.
- The murder of the Dutch couple on a Costa Rican plantation wood does not come from the sky. The countryside of the Central American country already appears to sigh a half years under a wave of robberies, murders and violent invasions by squatters groups on private estates.
Shortly after Christmas was on the plantation La Flecha in the province of Puntarenas, the Dutch couple Hans Snelders and Sita Dhawtal been killed. The Public Prosecutor in Costa Rica is still working to determine the cause of death, though it seems Snelders according to director Walter Espinoza of the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) 'a blow to have had on the head. '
A Dutch police team arrived in Costa Rica to help in the investigation.,, The couple did not have much contact with the environment '', says Espinoza.,, Therefore we understand that they were engaged, both here and in the Netherlands. For this purpose we can use well the Dutch support. '' Snelders and his younger partner lived for eight years in the country.
According to Espinoza Costa Rica takes the matter seriously. Detectives from the capital San José help and sniffer dogs have been deployed to catch something of a track. Because the plantation near the town of Sardinal is far from the civilized world, the police has no witnesses, nor certainty on the motive.
Long series of murders
However, the massacre is part of a long series. It is the province of Puntarenas, southwest of San José, is- according to local media- a veritable nest of crime. Last May was on a coffee farm 60 kilometers away from the Dutch teak plantation a complete family slaughtered with two children. Died early September a 86-year-old Cuban immigrant violence on his plantation. Squatters then pulled on his estate.
The coastal town of Esterillos Oeste, thirty kilometers from the Dutch scene is set upon by squatters. Around two hundred names mid-November, a piece of land up near a housing complex duration. Then rob several US and Canadian residents violent. The US Embassy in Costa Rica sent immediately thereafter a general warning to her compatriots.
Mayor Freddy Garro of the municipality Parrita dared not tackle the illegal invasion at that.,, It was too dangerous to perform with so few officers, '' the mayor apologized opposite
The Tico Times. Meanwhile reached the number of murders in Costa Rica last year, a sad record of more than 530 to just 4. 8 million inhabitants- still lower than in the rest of Central America.
Media in San Jose speculate that the couple Snelders also a victim of robbery. Possibly the perpetrators would have coined a large amount of money at home would have been after the sale of a plot on the plantation.
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