In the last few hours, some details have come to light about the circumstances in which a teenager was raped in Santiago de Cuba on Tuesday night, as well as the alleged identity of the man arrested for the incident.
The alleged aggressor has been identified as Reinier V. (Alias “Timba”), as detailed by journalist Yosmany Mayeta this Thursday, who also specified that he lives in the La Asunción neighborhood and is around 30 years old.
As had already been anticipated, the man was passing because he is serving a sentence for robbery and was punished for rape years ago.
Regarding the circumstances in which it occurred the unfortunate aggressionthe aforementioned source indicated – citing the testimony of a relative of the minor – that The teenager, who recently turned 15, was coming home from a birthday party.
“The power went out in the neighborhood and she was coming home and that bastard was at the El Polvorín Gas Point, where she was coming from, and he held her with a knife to her neck and told her that he would kill her if she screamed.”said the family source.
Yasuris LD, mother of the affected minor, offered brief statements to the communicator.
“The pain that my daughter and I are feeling must be worse for him. Everyone loves my daughter and takes care of her. Imagine that she has had heart surgery since she was five years old and she is a good and obedient girl, very attached to me and her brother, who lives with us. ”explained the victim’s mother.
“I only ask that the full weight of the law be brought to bear,” the woman added.
A video published this Wednesday by Mayeta Labrada showed the moments of tension that were experienced when Reinier V. was arrested in El Polvorínas alleged responsible for the rape of the teenager.
The images released made it possible to see how in a few seconds the number of neighbors in the place multiplied moments before the subject was placed in a patrol car.
Although it was not clearly seen in the video, Apparently some of those present hit the individual while he was being led to get into the patrol car.which led the police to fire a few shots into the air to disperse the mass of people and avoid a possible lynching.
The shots caused many people to run in fear in various directions.
A subsequent publication from the official Facebook profile “Héroes del Moncada” justified the police action and the shots in the air. “to disperse the residents who pounced on the detainee, with the intention of attacking him.”
“Despite being a degrading fact, Cuba is a state of law and the Ministry of the Interior will always act to protect the lives of all its citizens, guaranteeing compliance with the law and due process,” said the official source about the incident. , which occurred around eight in the morning on June 5.
It is not the first time that residents of Santiago de Cuba confront the authorities to try to take justice into their own hands in a rape case.
In February 2020 residents of Santiago de Cuba They confronted the police with stones to lynch the rapist of an eight-year-old girl. In that case, at the entrance to a home, the alleged aggressor was beaten and objects were thrown in his face, while he was protected by several police officers, who also shot into the air to scare away the people.
