Al-Rawi: Death threats for teen, family involved in fatal boating collision

The mi­nor al­leged to have been pi­lot­ing one of the two boats in­volved in last week­end’s dead­ly col­li­sion off the coast of Ch­aguara­mas has been re­ceiv­ing death threats along with his fam­i­ly and oth­er peo­ple on board the ves­sel at the time.

The threats, some of which have been is­sued via so­cial me­dia posts as well as com­mu­ni­cat­ed di­rect­ly to the fam­i­ly, have been re­port­ed to the po­lice.

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Se­nior Coun­sel Faris Al-Rawi, who rep­re­sents the mi­nor in ques­tion and his fam­i­ly, de­nied claims cir­cu­lat­ing the pub­lic do­main that the fam­i­ly who lives at Fed­er­a­tion Park had fled the coun­try fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent in which six peo­ple had lost their lives. In­stead, he said they were co­op­er­at­ing ful­ly with the var­i­ous agen­cies in­ves­ti­gat­ing the tragedy, as they want­ed a prop­er in­quiry to take place at the re­spec­tive tri­bunals.