The Provincial Court of Santiago de Cuba sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the murder and robbery of a motorcycle driver in the city, reported the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the official story, the convicts met in a secluded place with the intention of steal an engine to sell its parts on the irregular market.
After contacting the victim, two of them asked him to take them to where the third was waiting.
During the journey, one of the attackers hit him stab wound that pierced the biker’s liver, right kidney and colon.
Between the two attackers, they caused around 27 wounds. The third party involved took the motorcycle and disassembled it into pieces later.
During a search of the home of one of the convicted men, the authorities seized parts of the engine and other belongings of the victim, the police reported. Prosecutor’s Office.
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The event occurred in 2024, but the sentence was announced until now. Unofficially it had been mentioned that the victim could have been an officer of the MININT.
However, this information was not confirmed by official media nor is it mentioned in the current court note.
For its part, the agency EFE He highlighted that in Cuba there is no systematic public data on crimes, and information on violent crimes is usually disseminated only in official media or communications from the Ministry of the Interior.
Likewise, independent media and social networks recurrently reflect events such as violent robberies and murders.
