Havana/The Cuban police dismantled a band, composed of five men, who was dedicated to stealing motorcycles in the city of Ciego de Ávila. The arrest, which is not required date, was published on an official website that tried to calm the spirits of residents in the province, hit hard by the increase in insecurity in rural and urban areas.
According to the note of Heart Avileñosindividuals operated, using violence, in the header city where they subtracted fuel motorcycles and also electrical models. “When they were surprised they wore balaclavas, knives, arrows with bolts, nuts, balines and gloves,” details the text that has reaped dozens of comments, most asking for a hard hand against criminals.
“Five less to harm their means to the victims,” says the publication that identifies the thieves, which operated fundamentally in the Maidique cast, such as Julio Innocent, Ángel Luis, Kevin, Yunior and Maikol Leandro. The text is accompanied by photos of the five individuals and three of them seem to be under 25 years.
The text is accompanied by photos of the five individuals and three of them seem to be under 25 years
“Here you can’t even hit an eye,” he tells 14ymedio A tourist of the tourist who lives in Ciego de Ávila and was recently a victim of an assault attempt to steal his Motorine. “I spent tremendous scare and in the end they did not succeed because the driver of a car who saw the struggle approached and the thieves, when they saw that they were thrown over the light of the headlights, thought it was the police and ran away.”
After the spectacular incident, the 42 -year -old Avileña had to spend three weeks with an arm in Cabestrillo due to a dislocation in the elbow that thieves caused him when trying to snatch his vehicle. Another sequel is that since the attempted theft, which occurred at the beginning of last December, the woman has not used her motorcycle again.
“I do not feel sure and it is a danger to walk around with these things, so now I depend on my husband accompanying me to work or try to take some transport that goes there.” His current mobility has been seriously affected by fear of another assault: “It goes out to the essential and we must avoid the nights, the dark streets and the places separated.”
After the spectacular incident, the 42 -year -old Avileña had to spend three weeks with an arm in Cabestrillo
A similar experience lived Julio, a spirit who, in a visit he made to his relatives in the Chincha Coja neighborhood, in the blind of Ávila, saw how thieves almost disarm the motorcycle from his brother -in -law. “Violence and robberies are normal in blind. I don’t like to appear out there. In a family reunion my brother -in -law left her three -wheele From the helm, the mirrors and the rear rubbes were zafing him, “says the man. In addition, he says, Chincha Coja is “one of the most conflicting neighborhoods” in the city.
The page itself Heart Avileños He has published in recent weeks the arrest of several criminals, some fugitives from justice and others who also dedicated themselves to motorcycle theft. One of them is Dervis Lázaro that, in addition to subtracting vehicles, “speculated with firearms,” several neighbors say in their testimony.
But beyond this news of the capture of robbers, the Cubans constantly complain about the lack of effectiveness of the police to resolve the crimes that are denounced. The lack of personnel, the crisis of inputs and the increase in crime have revealed the inability of the police bodies to stop and process the perpetrators of robberies, assaults and other criminal acts.
The lack of personnel, the crisis of inputs and the increase in crime have revealed the inability of the police bodies
In November 2023, the official magazine Bohemia published a thorough report in which he detailed the results of a survey in which 92.3% of the interviewees considered that crime had increased a lot on the island, and 48.9% had been a direct victim in the six months prior to inquiry. A third did not trust the authorities to denounce the crime and, of those who did, 73.4% “did not see a solution to their claim.”
Criminal law, regretted Bohemia“It is not an instrument of change.” Criminality cannot be eradicated without improvement in living conditions. “The directors of the legal sector link the remarkable increase in crimes in our nation to the shortage of resources, goods, food and also to high inflation.”
