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Prosecutors seek preventive detention over alleged Abinader threat

Prosecutors requested three months of preventive detention against Delvinson De la Cruz Sosa, aged 29, whom they accuse of terrorism over alleged threats…

--- The context --- In the Dominican Republic, protecting the president must coexist with a basic rule of due process: a serious accusation has to be proven before a court. That balance frames the request filed by prosecutors in San Francisco de Macorís, Duarte province, over alleged threats against President Luis Abinader. --- The facts --- The Public Prosecutor's Office requested three months of preventive detention, as a coercive measure, against Delvinson De la Cruz Sosa, aged 29, whom it accuses of terrorism for allegedly threatening President Luis Abinader. The request was filed this Wednesday at the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the San Francisco de Macorís judicial district. According to the investigations cited by prosecutors, intelligence agencies detected and warned about the suspect's alleged intentions, which ended with his arrest. He was detained on Tuesday during a raid on Joaquín Balaguer street, in Vista del Valle, and authorities also raided Ferretería Molina, where the accused reportedly worked, according to official information. --- The positions --- The only position known so far is that of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which maintains its accusation and seeks preventive detention. In the judicial authorization for the raids, according to the referenced document, the court refers to an investigation into the alleged planning of a supposed attack against the president, placed by that document on November 6, 2026, Constitution Day. No defense statement is on record. --- What remains unknown --- The court still has to set the hearing. Authorities seized electronic equipment and chemical substances that, according to the information released, are being evaluated as possible evidence, with no result reported and no conviction against the accused. --- Unanswered questions --- What elements support, according to prosecutors, the accusation attributed to the accused? What will the evaluation of the seized equipment and substances show? When will the court set the coercion hearing? Will the defense present its own version of the facts? --- EPM analysis --- The attributed classification must be sustained with verifiable evidence: preventive detention is a coercive measure, not a sentence, and the presumption of innocence remains intact. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, this case should be followed under a double rule with no exceptions: institutional firmness in the face of any alleged threat against the president of the Republic, and full evidentiary rigor before an accusation becomes an early public verdict. Prosecutors have attributed serious facts to a 29-year-old man who has not been convicted, and the strength of that accusation can only be measured at the hearing, with the evaluated evidence on the table and the defense heard under equal procedural conditions.
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