A minor drowned this Monday in front of the Malecón in Havana, amid strong waves. As reported by the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso, another boy, also a minor, was rescued by the Cuban Fire Department.
“A witness to the events who jumped into the sea to rescue them assured us that the force of the waves made the actions impossible,” Alonso wrote and was repeated by various official media.
However, in a video broadcast on social networks and replicated by other Cuban news pages, one of the boys is observed for several minutes languishing little by little in the face of the onslaught of the waters, very close to the retaining stones of the wall in the San Leopoldo area, in Centro Habana, without anyone rushing to help him, despite the fact that they recorded the scene with a cell phone.
“How is that man going to be recording and he is not capable of going to help a drowning person. We ourselves are sinking”
The comments to the images are mostly outrageous. “And those who are recording can’t do anything?”, “Can’t they throw a rope or something?”, “How can that man be recording and he is not capable of going to help a drowning person. We ourselves we sink”, are some of them. Others are even harsher: “Another demonstration that the worst thing that this town has is its own people. There are no feelings of empathy for absolutely nothing, that is the greatest achievement of the dictatorship. A town with the deepest misery human body that can be seen. They’d rather record than throw a stick at it for it to grab on to.”
Lázaro Manuel Alonso also stated that “police officers, border guard troops and firefighters are at the scene securing the area and searching for the body of the deceased”, but this newspaper could not verify any operation in the early hours of the night. The place preserves the structures of the old baths that Havana had in that part of the sea, dismantled more than a century ago.
Just this Monday afternoon, a severe local storm occurred in that area of Havana that left a large part of the capital without electricity and without a data signal.
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