“The State does not bow to crime” – security minister

“The State does not bow to crime, for any reason,”   said Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino, on Wednesday, November 3 referring to the latest bloody events that occurred in the country amid growing calls for his resignation.

According to Pino, the instruction given to the zone chiefs and the Police is that “no one talks to criminals.”

Recently, the kidnapping and murder of American businessman Randall Leigh Steittmeir and one of his collaborators, Armando Miranda, has caused consternation in the country.

This double crime is in addition to the five people who were murdered last Friday at the Espacio Panamá nightclub, in San Felipe, as well as a triple homicide in Kuna Nega.

“I say it was a bad week because it was,” but that does not mean that every week will be like this. We are going to have better days,” he said.

The minister added that the police officers will continue in the streets. “We are going to do the job, those responsible will go to justice,” he said. Earlier he had called on police to be “more forceful” in combatting crime.