Cucuta
The loneliness of the early morning was an accomplice for homeless residents to achieve their goal: steal a large part of the fence that encloses the monument to the Battle of Cúcuta. With saw in hand, they managed to remove a large part of the trellis.
Leonardo Gómez, president of the Community Action Board of the February 28 neighborhood, told Caracol Radio that one of the neighbors realized what these people were doing and managed to snatch part of the fence from them. However, about three meters were stolen.
“Yesterday, street residents cut one of the bars that covers the Loma de Bolívar monument and that allows visitors to avoid falling into the abyss,” said the community leader. “The situation that is happening in the city is outrageous and worrying.by these people who are on the streets, who are committing crimes, who can no longer leave practically anything in their homes because everything is stolen.”
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He added that he asked the secretary of the government of Cúcuta for a technical meeting where they could make known the current situation of the monument, which, according to Gómez, It is without water, it has some lamps that are burned out, among other problems that this emblematic place would have.
He also said that the tourist information point has not been occupied by the police, “requests have been passed to the station commanders and the commander in San Mateo, so that there is accompaniment by uniformed police and tourism personnel, because That’s what that point is for, but unfortunately The monument, when the municipal administration gave it to me, did so without a sink, without light bulbs, or a toilet bowl.”.
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He concluded by narrating that after the theft occurred, there has been no reaction from the authorities.
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