For some months now, the Capture of thieves and criminals by the population in Santiago de Cuba has become a recurring event. However, a public complaint details that after being arrested, the robbers are released shortly after by the police, a repressive body that has been in the public eye due to the passivity in its daily actions.
The independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, through his Facebook profile, recounted how two criminals, captured a few weeks ago by the people of Santiago, were released by the police.
“Both criminals, repeat offenders and previously punished for robberies in the city, are now free, after the good work of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) in Santiago de Cuba,” wrote Mayeta Labrada.
The communicator was referring to a Cuban who was detained and tied up on Heredia Streetin the heart of the city of Santiago de Cuba, while trying to rob a car.
Also, he alluded to a young man who entered the doorway of a house in the Santa Bárbara district and tried to steal a bicycle.
But they are not the only events that the people of Santiago have had to face.
At the beginning of March, Neighbors of Reparto Pastorita arrested an alleged assailant who, in the company of another individual, tried to rob a woman who was withdrawing cash from an ATM.
The incident occurred at the ATM near the Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Surgical Hospital.
Some days ago, an alleged thief who tried to rob a mother and her little son when they were leaving the “La Colonia” Pediatric Hospitalwas arrested by neighbors, who barely let the police act and sought to bring justice to the criminal on their own.
Identified as Alfredo Arzolathe robber was chased by people who witnessed the incident and tried to hide in a hallway of some houses, on 2nd Street of Trocha, in the Vista Hermosa Council.
The complaint occurs a few weeks after The Cuban regime will try to clean up the image of the police through the official television program We make Cubaof the Caribbean Channel.
In the broadcast, the government spokesperson Humberto Lopeznext to Beatriz de la Peña, Head of the Criminal Proceedings Investigation Department of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic; and to the colonel Idael FumeroHead of Information and Analysis of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI), showed a group of data, graphs and images, whose objective was to demonstrate that there is no increase in violence in Cuba, something that does not coincide with citizen perception in recent months.
Colonel Fumero assured that only 9% of the crimes committed in Cuba are violent. Robberies with force would not be classified in this category, despite the fear they generate and the trauma they can cause to victims.
Thefts and robberies with force are 81% of the total crimes reported in Cubaaccording to this source.
However, The reactions of several Cubans to the program were immediate..
“I recently went to the polyclinic to get an injection because I couldn’t stand the ear pain and I was with my heart on my sleeve. There is no violence, look,” said an Internet user.
There was no shortage of examples to contradict the words expressed by the officials. “Look if there is no violence, in Luyanó we mothers are accompanying the boys to school because they are attacking with machete in an area near 2 high school,” confessed a mother.
This reality that has Cubans in constant anxiety is not particular to the territory of Santiago. There are plenty of examples in other provinces, whose police actions are also questioned for their parsimony against crimes and speed when it comes to harassing dissidents or political activists.
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