“They killed the pig and left only the legs.” More than 200 pounds had the pig that Jorge raised with care to feed his family this end of the year and that, a few days ago, was stolen from him in the middle of the night. The thieves, count to 14ymedio This neighbor of the neighborhood known as El Hueco, in Sancti Spíritus, took advantage of the fact that the family slept to violate the pigsty.
It is a construction “quite solid and protected by rods,” says its owner, but they broke them with “some kind of heavy tool.” “We did not feel anything, because the air conditioning was on,” regrets Jorge, who does not rule out that they have put the animal to sleep with some kind of substance, because the residents of the place did not hear any noise either.
As the Christmas holidays approach and the supply crisis continues, the perception of the population is that thefts and robberies are increasing alarmingly.
One of them suffered from María, who had the washing machine taken from the terrace of her house, on the Central Highway, also in Sancti Spíritus. “The place was protected by a strong gate, but they have bitten it to enter,” says the woman, who laments: “You never think that this can happen to you, until it happens and that’s it, there is nothing to do. So much sacrifice that it costs everything in these times. “
In Havana, in the Luyanó neighborhood, Alicia suffered a raid on her house while the whole family was inside
In Havana, in the Luyanó neighborhood, Alicia suffered a raid on her house while the whole family was inside. The assailants stole a children’s backpack and Alicia’s wallet, with money and her documents, but they also searched the refrigerator and took the food that the woman kept in the freezer. “They have taken up to 10 pounds of chicken that I bought yesterday, with the queue so big that I had to make and now I don’t have to buy again for another 15 days,” he complains bitterly.
In recent days, social networks have been filled with complaints in which citizens ask that urgent measures be taken in the face of the increase in assaults with knives in the country. This Wednesday, in a Facebook group called Everything on electric motorcycles in Havana, user Alejandro Alvarez published that he was the victim of an assault last Sunday at the traffic lights of 51 and 76 in the municipality of Marianao.
According complaint the Internet user, the assailant, armed with a knife, stripped him of his motorcycle that he used to send messages and was the livelihood of his family. The victim proposed a caravan of owners of motorinas to appear 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.
Some also complain that there are police officers to suppress protests and prevent alleged crimes against the state, but not to find thieves in the neighborhoods.
The Government does not give official figures for robberies and robberies or violent assaults, so it is impossible to determine when crime increases or decreases. Nor do the state media address these types of cases or possible waves of robberies, generally limiting themselves to covering only thefts in the state sector and, in many cases, magnifying them.
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