During the early hours of this Saturday, a neighbor from Ringuelet returned home and discovered that everything was messed up: They had entered to rob the patio and took almost all their work tools, musical instruments and a computer.
The robbery occurred in the 510 block between 5 and 6, one of the areas hardest hit by insecurity, which for several months has been suffering attacks by criminals and Although the neighbors renew their claims to the authorities, the situation continues to be uncontrollable.
On this occasion, the victim was a musician who discovered the robbery when he returned home, after 3 in the morning of this Saturday, December 24. “Around 3 in the morning I was entering the house, I opened the gate and saw that there were pieces of the spider lying on the floor, it seemed very strange to me. I sounded the neighborhood alarm and entered the room; there I saw that they had broken me the window with a crowbar, surely leveraging it, they forced it and entered,” he told 0221.com.ar.
When he entered, the first thing he did was turn on the lights but they didn’t turn on. There he saw that the ancient chandeliers on the ceiling had been torn off: only the cables dangled. “When I shined my cell phone flashlight I saw everything I was missing,” she added.
He is a musician and works as an audio and video editor: the thieves took all his daily work tools. As detailed at the time of filing the complaint at the Sixth Police Station in Tolosa, the criminals stole a black Hidden electric bass, a Midiplus marching MIDI controller keyboard, a complete computer with its audio system and a graphics tablet.
“It’s going to be a difficult Christmas Eve. Next year I’ll take more precautions, there’s no other left. I’m going to save to replace the things that were lost,” he said with resignation. As soon as he discovered the attack, he called 911 and after a while a patrol car approached. The officers accompanied him to check the house and the patio and discovered that behind it there was a cut chain that leads to an internal patio next to the train tracks. That’s where they entered and escaped with things.
It is not the first time that the residents of this block have suffered robberies. In fact, so far this year, at least thirty times they denounced different attacks, at any time of the day and in different ways. At the beginning of November, residents and merchants of Ringuelet took to the streets to demand security in the area, tired of the robberies. On that occasion they cut off the corner of 7 and 511. “We have to go out again to complain to the authorities because we can’t stand living like this anymore; we have to be locked up and very afraid because they keep robbing us all the time and nobody does anything, now We don’t know what to do”, they had told this portal in the preview of that Friday.
The merchants who have their businesses on 511 between 7th and Camino Centenario, together with those who work along 7th avenue in this area, are in check due to the number of robberies they have been suffering in 2022. “They rob us all the time and the thieves don’t care about anything because they know they have a free hand to enter the houses, day and night”said a man who lives one block from Estación Norte, the multi-sports venue near the Ringuelet train station, and added: “On top of some of the security cameras we don’t know if they work or not, we are unprotected and we can no longer live like this thinking that they can rob us at any time.”
As this medium reported, one of the efforts that the residents of this area of La Plata are trying to promote has to do with opening a police station. “For years we have been collecting signatures to try to open a police station or a detachment in Ringuelet, which we do not have. At the time we collected many signatures and presented a folder with the map of the crime to the Ministry of Security of the Province. They boxed it up, they did not they paid attention to us. Last year we did the same thing again and in January of this year, again. So far we have not received any kind of response, the file has not moved”said a neighbor who has lived for a long time on 510th Street, the site of a new assault.
“We want to feel more protected, nobody walks on the street, you don’t see the police and the robberies continue to happen, we are fed up,” he added. With this new robbery, the claim is made visible once again, waiting for the authorities of the province, the Municipality, and the Police to prevent the attacks, something that so far they cannot solve.
