MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Joel Julien, Trinidad Express Tribune – “A Muslim group has imposed a curfew in the Richplain, Diego Martin area, the Sunday Express learned from a police source yesterday.

A young man who broke that curfew was held down and shot in both legs on Friday night.

Injured was 28-year-old Johann Moore.

Moore was last night at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

Police reports said he was walking to his family’s Richplain home around midnight when he was stopped by two armed men belonging to the religious group.

A designated ‘sentry post’ set up by members of the group is located outside a shop along Richplain Road.

The curfew begins at 10 p.m. and ends before the 6 a.m. call to prayer, the police source said.

Moore was punished for not adhering to the curfew.

He was held down on the ground and shot.

Moore hobbled to his home and officers of the West End Police Station were contacted.

Moore was then taken to hospital.

Head of the Police Service’s Western Division Snr Supt Ishmael David yesterday said he was concerned by the curfew imposed in Richplain.

‘We are concerned by that development. There is no curfew in the country and there should not be any imposed in any area. That is illegal,’ David said in a telephone interview yesterday.” Read more.