Osiris José Puerto Terry has a bullet lodged in his back, a prominent scar on his abdomen, and another on his right foot, almost reaching the kneecap. A specialized police captain shot him during the demonstrations of the July 11 at the crossroads of Santa Emilia and Diez de Octubre. “It’s an (attempted) murder,” denounced this ice cream snack vendor who was only trying to get to his home that day.
Puerto Terry went from being a victim to being accused. For a year and six months he stressed to the Journal of the Americas which is monitored by the military Counterintelligence and the police unit of Aguilera, in Lawton, municipality of Diez de Octubre. “Every seventh day of each month I must go with my wife to the police sector and sign a commitment document that I am not going to get into politics, I am not going to create problems and a series of other things. On the dates that the Security of the State determines, I have to spend three or four days without leaving my house”.
The officer who treated him at Villa Marista, headquarters of the political police in Havana, “does not want me to say that three shots were fired at me while I was defenseless and without having put up any resistance. Why am I not going to tell the truth? Telling the truth is not a crime,” he told the same outlet. Puerto Terry is tired of everything being rally Y molar in their demand for justice and compensation.
For a year and six months Osiris José Puerto Terry has been monitored by the military Counterintelligence and the police unit of Aguilera, in Lawton, municipality of Diez de Octubre
Regarding the case, he said that the Prosecutor’s Office named two non-commissioned officers as those who injured him while “they were doing their job.” Puerto Terry denied and reiterated: “That’s a lie. I was shot by a specialized police captain. In the response given by the Prosecutor’s Office, five months after the event, they put crimes of injury. I do not agree.”
Puerto Terry told the Journal of the Americas that that Sunday the people who protested against the Government were withdrawn by the police and the presence of mobilized supporters of the regime. “Things were hot,” says this 49-year-old man, when around five in the afternoon a group of officers came across the street “firing firearms at the population.”
One of those shots hit the spine where he tried to protect himself. “A neighbor opens the door of the building where I was trying to seek refuge. When I am about to enter, the policeman fires a second shot that hits my right foot. I fall to the ground, I cannot stand up, and the officer fires a third shot that hits me in the back,” Puerto Terry told the same outlet. A neighbor of the building came out and shouted: “It is Osiris who is lying there.”
Through the Twitter account Justicia11J, the YouTube video link was shared in which the moment in which this seller is injured in the leg is observed and when he is shot in the back. The message thread refers to at least seven other people suffering gunshot wounds.
After helping him, a neighbor nicknamed coquin he put him in a car and took him to the Calixto García hospital. Upon entering the hospital, he was beaten by the policemen who were at the entrance. “When the doctors and surgeons from group number four who were on duty that July 11 arrive, the officers ask them: ‘Are you going to save that counterrevolutionary?'”
After a year and months investigating the identity of a person injured during the Toyo protests on #11JCuba, a fact that we learned through videos and photos provided by different sources, we have learned that it is the citizen Osiris José Puerto Terry. ? pic.twitter.com/YZBSwMmy7O
— Justicia11J Arrests for Political Reasons (@justicia11j) January 28, 2023
Puerto Terry received a medical discharge on August 11. An officer from 100 y Aldabó, headquarters of the Technical Investigation Department, took statements from him and his wife. Despite having written a letter in which he explained that the day of the demonstration he went out to sell his ice cream snacks and on his way home he found some neighbors between Pamplona and San Nicolás who invited him to a rum.
That July 11 and the days that followed, there were numerous arbitrariness by the Police against the population. After various complaints from civil society and Cubans on social networks, it became clear that Laurencio Tejeda He was shot and killed by a police lieutenant. Yoennis Pelegrin Hernandez during the demonstrations the following day, July 12, in the Havana neighborhood of La Güinera, in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo.
________________________
Collaborate with our work:
The team of 14ymedio He is committed to doing serious journalism that reflects the reality of deep Cuba. Thank you for accompanying us on this long road. We invite you to continue supporting us, but this time becoming a member of our newspaper. Together we can continue transforming journalism in Cuba.
