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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts. [/quote]

It makes perfect sense if you consider the situation from the DR's perspective.

DR was using this young man as a deflection from all the criminal activity raging around their island and tourist locations. Once this received worldwide attention, the authorities needed a scapegoat to keep attention away from the island, and this young man fit the bill. Any person with a thinking brain could see what was happening.

I hope some high-voltage lawyers step forward and offer their services to this young man. He needs to sue that miserable, wretched hellhole for using him like this. He's going to have a very hard time living down the notoriety, and it will follow him online indefinitely.

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Making “sense” doesn’t make it legal. DR was framing him and waiting for a body to be found. They felt perfectly fine keeping him in perpetuity, he was held for almost 2 weeks (and so was his friend) which is much longer than the legal 48 hours. It’s pretty awful. I cannot trust anything their investigation concludes from this point forward. [/quote]

I think DR was just thinking about all that money, really.

And who can blame them?  DR is a third-world country and they understand they are a third-world country with little to nothing going for them, other than tourism from developed / western nations.

The DR just wanted to send the message to tourists that it’s now taking crime against tourists seriously and that DR is totally safe (even though we all know that isn’t true).[/quote]

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