Alfredo González had already been arrested in Matanzas in mid -July while making a peaceful walk with flowers and his son’s photo.
Miami, United States. – Alfredo González, father of the young Cuban Annier Gonzálezwho committed suicide in 2021 while serving the active military service (SMA) in Matanzas, was arrested on Monday and remains at the beach police station (Matanzas), accused of the crime of “contempt”, according to He reported on Facebook The Cuban academic Alina Bárbara López Hernández.
“Alfredo González’s wife tells me that she was instructed for charges for the crime of ‘contempt’, she continues to be arrested at the beach station and have not yet achieved a lawyer who represents him,” López Hernández wrote, who described the case as “a huge injustice” and asked the Matancera citizenship to be involved.
“At the moment I go to the police, that the mediocre chief of the previous one who abused my son is accusing me of threat,” announced on Facebook Gonzálezshortly before being arrested.
The man had already been arrested in mid -July, after trying to honor his son at the site where he died. “I was going to honor my son leading him to bloom where he died, in the combined southern in Matanzas,” he explained in A later video.
As he narrated, he went out with his son’s photo on his chest, in the company of his family and without the intention of generating disturbances. However, he assured that he was followed by unknown people and police patrols since the beginning of his journey: “When I get to the corner I see that they begin to walk back to me,” he said. “I realized that I could not go where there was less public, because you know how the patrolmen of this country work (…), most are ignorant people.”
When arriving near the point where he intended to leave the flowers, he was intercepted by agents of the Ministry of Interior (Minint). “Two (…) begin to shout, to miss respect,” he denounced. González said he explained that he only intended to place flowers and was not violating the law: “What is the problem? (…) Why can’t I do it?”
Despite his initial refusal, he was finally forced to get on the patrol to avoid public aggressions. “All those people who were there, people from my town, (…) Everything was full there looking at that show,” he said.
In his testimony, he revealed that he was taken to the Technical Investigation Department (DTI) and subsequently interrogated by a counterintelligence officer: “First they tell me that I am making the game to the counterrevolution. He was already a person as a leader of the dead boys in military service.”
González categorically rejected that accusation: “The only thing I do is the word justice. I have not done any more (…), I have always told the truth.”
He also said that, after several hours of interrogation, he was transferred back home by an officer. “He rode me in his car and brought me here (…), there was a ball of people who live there near (…), they had flowers to put them to my son’s tomb.”
Despite the verbal apologies he says he received from one of the officers, González denounced that his right to pay his son was violated: “They bitten me the day. I could not fulfill my promise.” As he said, he had even contemplated the possibility of building a small monument with the name of his son at the site of the event, but gave up to avoid reprisals: “For them, my son is a criminal (…) because he killed himself. Because he did not want to meet the revolution.”
González also questioned the lack of institutional actions after the death of his son. “What they had to do was go to the previous one, check what happened (…), there were abuse and are proven. And make available to the Prosecutor’s Office to those who corresponded.” He directly pointed to the head of prisons in the province, to whom he attributes responsibility in breach of the procedure: “Neither alive nor dead cared a damn the life of my son.”
At the close of the video, he reiterated his commitment to the peaceful and legal complaint: “I will continue to ask for justice for my son (…). I will sit with them again to see if they are going to do something with those officers who abused.”
