The robberies and the ineffectiveness of the Cuban police were exposed this Friday by journalist Ely Justiniani Pérez. “Three robberies on my block in less than a week”, wrote in a post. Right there, he regretted that the authorities had not “done anything”: neither taken fingerprints nor followed up on the cases.
“What should be done? Put up a sign that says ‘homeland and life’ or ‘down I don’t know who’, so that they put a little surveillance in the area?”, Questioned the collaborator of sites such as The touch and The Young Cuba, in clear allusion to the opposition slogans. Justiniani explained that the thief entered the house of an elderly woman who lives alone, and considered: “That means that he was in danger of death.”
The journalist addresses the authorities by recalling that the police officers’ salary “is paid by the people”, and that their role “is not precisely so that they are after activists and young people with different political ideas”, as has been evident in the marches on July 11 and the frustrated one on November 15. “Do your real work, recontra,” he demanded.
Justiniani explained that the thief entered the house of an elderly woman who lives alone, and considered: “That means that he was in danger of death.”
Last October, Havanan sunrise made it known six robberies in a week committed in the neighborhood of El Vedado, where the police implemented an “evasive tactic”, which takes hours and even days to collect evidence at the crime scene if it is common crimes. “People feel unprotected, thieves know it,” was the feeling of the robbery victim, Aniusca Labrada.
This crime wave occurs on the island, according to the Numbeo platform, which is a company registered in Serbia and founded by a former Google software engineer, who in 2020 it located to Cuba as “the safest country in the Americas”, with a crime rate of 29.02% and security of 70.98%, surpassing Canada and the United States.
Given the silence of the official media, the thefts are reported through social networks. “One problem is that many people do not report because when they do, the police ask them for papers on the stolen objects,” one user told this newspaper. “If they are electrical appliances (properties or import papers), as there is so much illegal sale, people fear that they will end up going from accuser to accused.”
Thus, it is difficult to know the real incidence of these acts, because many times the victims choose to remain silent and, if anything, reinforce the security of their homes after suffering a robbery, buying bars, new locks or surveillance cameras. “I once reported a robbery and then I couldn’t leave the country because I was in the middle of a police investigation,” adds a woman from Havana who had a flat screen TV and a camera stolen from her apartment. laptop.
It is difficult to know the real incidence of these acts, because many times the victims choose to remain silent and, if anything, reinforce the security of their homes after suffering a robbery
“When I went to leave through the airport they told me that I could not and when investigating it was that my name was in the investigation file, so I withdrew the complaint because they had not caught the thief and to top it off I was receiving double punishment, that I ran out of my belongings and lost my ticket payment. “
Another of the most common thefts in Cuba is that of motorboats, which leads the owners to organize the “hunt” for thieves. Yoan Rosquete, for example, through Facebook “put baited motorcycles to catch them red-handed.” There are also groups in which the spoil is denounced.
To this must be added assaults, such as the one on November 10, when a medical student was threatened with a knife to take away her cell phone. The event that occurred in the Ciudamar neighborhood of San Miguel del Padrón, in Havana, was caught on video.
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