Only two weeks after the Ministry of the Interior described the reports on social networks of theft of electric motorcycles as “fake news”, the authorities of Camagüey affirm the opposite.
state television reported this Thursday of the arrest of several individuals for the theft of motorines with the use of violence. Although it does not give exact figures on how many thefts were recorded in the city, how many people were arrested or when the assaults were carried out, the news confirms that there is no such “citizen tranquility”, as the Government tried to make it appear on January 2, alleging that the supposed security enjoyed by the country is a “conquest of the Cuban Revolution.”
The modus operandi , according to an agent from the Provincial Criminal Investigation Unit, consists of the thieves identifying their victims, following them up and at night, “using violence and intimidation with knives, they stole the motorines“.
Given the increase in complaints, the police “formed a confrontation team to investigate these events”, nine thefts of motorines according to the video broadcast on television. It is very common in this type of theft that the vehicles are disarmed and sold for parts.
The thieves identified their victims, followed them up and at night, “using violence and intimidation with knives, they stole their ‘motorines'”
On the dates of the year-end celebration there were a series of reports of assaults that put many citizens on alert. Robberies with a knife, theft of gold chains or cell phones, theft of electric motorcycles, have been some of the most frequent warnings about the lack of security that exists on Cuban streets.
Some profiles on social networks, especially groups like motorcycle clubsSome of the violent thefts of electric motorcycles have been reported. “It is best to avoid red traffic lights,” they warn. In one of the videos that circulated, you can see the moment in which a man who drives one of these vehicles is robbed at a traffic light and is left lying on the street while the thieves drive away on the motorcycle.
Last December, in a Facebook group called Everything on electric motorcycles in Havana, user Alejandro Álvarez published that he was the victim of an assault at the traffic lights of 51 and 76 in the municipality of Marianao. According to the Internet user, the assailant, armed with a knife, stripped him of his motorcycle, which he used to send messages and was the breadwinner for his family.
Álvarez proposed a caravan of owners of motorines to protest before the Attorney General’s Office or another public place and draw attention to the insecurity in the city and the growing wave of assaults.
According to the latest official figuresBetween January and November 2021, the Ministry of the Interior registered 468 complaints of violent thefts of electric motorcycles. Of them, only 60%, 281 cases, were clarified, and only 186 could be recovered. motorines.
Until last January 1, around 200,000 electric motorcycles circulated in the country.
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