MADRID, Spain.- Robberies, assaults and crime in general are becoming more and more frequent in the province of Camagüey, without the national police acting against it. In a recent report, the independent media Cuban Time denounced several corroborated cases in this sense, and specified that vehicles, clothing and mobile phones “are among the most coveted objects by the assailants.”
The journalist from the aforementioned outlet, Mario Ramírez, was a close witness to one of these events, since his father was assaulted in recent days in front of the main entrance of the Camagüey pediatric hospital while he was traveling in his motorcycle.
“A hooded subject stopped a few meters ahead. As if by instinct, he accelerated the vehicle to avoid the suspect, but as he fled, a second hooded man came out of the bushes to hit him in the neck with a tube. There was no blackout, there were people, although few, and Mario (father) was barely able to escape chased by the violent subject with a gun in hand,” the reporter recounted through Facebook.
Other cases exposed by La Hora de Cuba
On San Ramón street, one of the longest in the city of Camagüey, at least since September, a criminal dressed in a cap, facemask and glove has been operating, mainly in its unlit sections, whose specialty is snatching chains from necks.
“On September 2, Vivian Urquiza Rivero and her daughter were the first reported victims; however, several publications in Camagüey buying and selling groups assure that the individual continues to do his own thing in the busy artery”, he announced Cuban Time.
While in the section of the train line that joins the La Rubia and Juanito districts, a woman named Martha was robbed earlier this month. Her daughter denounced on Facebook that the assailant used a knife as a weapon of intimidation and was wearing a black mask.
On November 6, around 6:00 in the morning, in the lobby of the twelve-story post office building in Monte Carlo, a young woman was mugged. The victim was threatened with a knife to her neck to get her to hand over her phone.
That same day, in the twelfth floor of the pharmacy, just one block from the previous place, a lady was robbed, managing to snatch a chain, two rings, and her cell phone.
In the early hours of November 8, Daer Manso’s house, on 3rd street in the La Mascota neighborhood, was violated on the ground floor, while he was sleeping upstairs with his wife. The thieves took a motorcycle with its charger, a bicycle, an extension, a backpack with ten thousand pesos, plus three thousand pesos that were in the kitchen, a coat, and a three-valve pot. Following the complaint, the police investigated the facts, but to date they have not reported any progress in the investigation.
This November 23, residents of the bakery street, in Saratoga, arrested a thief in the middle of the act and published his photo on Facebook. The individual was caught stealing clothes from the strings of a house in the area.
Crime spreads on the island
These cases are not exclusive to Camagüey. Recently, the official press (which does not usually report on these events) reported that two doctors had been assaulted in the Tulipán neighborhood, in the province of Cienfuegos. The assailants stole an electric motorcycle, a cell phone, and other belongings.
The newspaper Granma At the beginning of the current month, it warned that social networks are being used to propose “the illicit sale or purchase of foreign currency, mostly, at a lower price than the one set for its commercialization.”
“The interest of the perpetrators is to steal large sums of money, and for this they agree with their victims in order to carry out the exchange, generally in tall buildings, remote places or houses with several entrances and exits, an event that ends in a robbery through trickery or deceit, intimidation of people, physical force, the use of bladed weapons or other objects,” he explained. Granma.
On November 11 of this month, the attempted robbery of a professor at the University of Havana, Yarini Manuel Arrebolawhile he was traveling on a P11 bus, which covers the Vedado-Alamar route.
A few days later the unfortunate news of the murder of the child Darío Leyva Acosta, in Las Tunas. Presumably, stealing his cell phone was the motive for the crime.
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