PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) today said they foiled a “well-orchestrated plan to destabilize the country” and have arrested 72 people as protesters blocked roads and fired gunshots demanding that the officers involved in the deaths of three men last weekend by police be brought to justice.
“Intelligence has revealed that this was an orchestrated plan that was led by several gang members, whereby the intention was to use the shooting of the three young men a few days ago as a front to cover the planned plot to shut down the country,” the police said.
This was wishful thinking, as it has only exposed who the real enemy is, when the nation saw it for themselves, via the plan to destabilize the country, and put law-abiding citizens in harm’s way,” the TTPS said in the statement.
“The plan to shut down the country involved setting fire to certain places, from along the Beetham to Port of Spain, and when police officers arrived they would be fired upon.
The plan was to kill police officers and to shoot up police stations.
