Madrid/The official press announced on Wednesday the 25 -year prison sentence to Gabriel Peña Oviedo, a man accused of killing Yordan Revé Abrañan a stab to the young man, who caused his immediate death and left him lying on public roads. ”
The note, published by the Popular Provincial Court of Havana and shared by the social networks of agencies such as the Ministry of Interior, indicates that the trial was held on September 23, but there is no information when the events tried, which lack background in the press, both independent and official.
According to the statement, when issuing a sentence, “the personal characteristics of the accused, his social behavior, the lesivity of the facts, the impact he had on the community, the suffering caused to the relatives of the victim and in the violation of the fundamental principle of a human being, which is life” were taken into account. The maximum sentence provided by the Criminal Code for these facts is 30 years, life imprisonment or death, on which a moratorium weighs since 2003.
Although the convicted person has the possibility of appealing to the Supreme Court, the minimum foreseen for the crime of murder is 20 years
Although the convicted person has the possibility of appealing to the Supreme Court, the minimum foreseen for the crime of murder is 20 years, unless the inmate obtained a judgment by homicide –cast with between eight and 20 years -, which seems doubtful in the light of the brief story of the facts described in the statement.
“Cuban justice reaffirms its commitment to the legality and protection of the rights of all citizens, as well as their firm position against violence in all its forms,” says the text, clearly disseminated to transmit to the population the rigor of institutions in the midst of a wave of violence that does not know precedents in Cuba.
The Interior Ministry has not facilitated the figures of crimes that occur on the island, although it argues that they are stable at least in the last six years. True or not, the perception of insecurity has changed for the population since the government – with the independent press and social networks denouncing – cannot hide crime and has begun to admit it and affirm that it fights it firmly.
The 2024, the program of the official Humberto López offered The percentages of each type of crime in Cuba. According to the report, 81% are economic and financial, 9% violent and 10% for unidentified “others”. Within that 9%, 30% correspond to threats, 28% to minor and 8% lesions to serious, 25% to robberies with violence and, finally, the most serious: sexual aggressions (3%), murders (3%) and homicides (1%).
This year, the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit (OCAC) and Cuba Century published A balance with the crimes of 2024which closed, according to its sources, with 1,317 crimes reported, more than three per day and 668 more than in 2023, a growth of 50.7%. The numbers indicated that there were 880 robberies, 167 murders, 93 assaults, 65 aggressions and 112 classified as “others.”
