MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban journalist Julita Osendi, who was mugged This Monday on the Havana boardwalk, he denounced the ineffectiveness of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) in light of the incident.
“It is inadmissible that the forces of order that are there to defend you look the other way and do nothing: nobody can imagine the helplessness that this Cuban feels,” Osendi said Wednesday.
from their social networks He gave details about the behavior of the police officers who attended her after the complaint.
Immediately after the robbery, which occurred at 9:30 in the morning, he called the police number (106). They told him that a technician would go to the place. Half an hour later he called again and they told him that the specialist had already left for the place, that she should wait.
“At 11 in the morning, I have as a witness the TRD workers that exist in front of the boardwalk, one block above the events, I decided to call my son to pick me up because I see that nothing is progressing,” he explains.
During the wait, he spoke with several policemen who were in the area. She asked them to look at the security cameras that overlooked the place where she was assaulted but they refused.
“Another policeman, already mature, who came to pick up a lady, told me that he didn’t know anything, to go to the Zanja unit to report the fact and that thank goodness he was fine because days before they had caught a tourist who They had taken a chain, watch, and cell phone from him and they had kicked him to the ground,” the journalist continued.
Once at home, he received a call from the police chief in Old Havana, to whom he had to return to tell him how what happened and what the thief looked like. This police officer told him to report to the unit.
“I told him that I was not going anywhere, that my knee was swollen and that I had already made the complaint, had called ETECSA and had canceled my cards at the bank because these types of criminals are seasoned at stealing passwords and could enter my mobile transfer He agreed to send the task force to my house. It would be half past one or two in the afternoon… At three or so, a PNR officer from Central Havana called me who came to visit me and collect my statement,” she recounts.
The operational guard arrived at 5:00 in the afternoon and was again questioned. At that time “the thief already bathed, changed his clothes, emptied my precious work, photos and contacts,” says Julita Osendi about the slow proceeding of the law enforcement authorities.
As she explains, the different agents who attended her put up bureaucratic obstacles deciding if the case corresponded to the authorities of Centro Habana or Old Havana, because the robbery had occurred in a border area.
Faced with this situation, she questioned: “Now I wonder if, instead of being violated at my age, I would have come out with a poster encouraging sedition, attacking a government leader, defending political prisoners or ladies in white, Would the police chiefs of the aforementioned municipalities have set out to delimit borders or would the entire available body of police officers and non-police officers have gone to the place? And not exactly to greet me!
Osendi also referred to the increase in crime in the country: “It is worrying, very worrying, something that goes far beyond the dispossession of which I was a victim that, after all, I have to thank that I was not attacked with a knife or a bat. Draw your conclusions friends.
