A young Cuban is recovering from surgery after being shot by a policeman in the town of El Cristo, in Santiago de Cuba, last Sunday, according to sources linked to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT).
The information transcends after this Saturday the influencer Brian Infante (A Thinking Asere) brought the case to light and assured that the policeman shot young Luis Carchabal Silot in the back.
“The policeman is known in the area as El Rapero and it would be the third time he has used his weapon against a person. The boy is very serious, his life is in danger, ”said he the influencer.
Given this information, the anonymous Facebook account Sofia CJ, associated with MININT, stated that the policeman fired after being attacked with a machete by Carchabal Silot.
“On Sunday night, three police officers in areas close to the Cristo checkpoint surprised three citizens who each came with a sack of horse meat, the product of a crime of illegal cattle slaughter that they had just committed.” , reads the official post.
“The officers immediately give the order to stop, at which point the citizen identified as Luisito attacked one of the officers with a machete, who, after firing a warning shot into the air, was forced to shoot this individual to preserve his own life,” the story continues.
The official information assures that, after being subjected to an operation of several hours, the young man is out of danger.
“Currently, he remains admitted to the recovery room and will be made available to the courts for the crime of attack, worsening his condition since at the time of committing the crime he was on probation,” adds the post of this official account through which the police are trying to clean up their image, in the midst of the escalation of violence suffered by the island.
