A Cuban alerted on social networks about the increase in robberies in Havana to vehicles that transport goods in the back, mainly trucks, without any custody: the so-called “ninjas”.
“They get in and take almost everything you carry, from a rubber band to the bucket to clean the car”, warned Internet user Ariel Fortunato de La Torre in a post on the popular Facebook group Accidentes Buses & Camiones.
The aforementioned source warned that these criminals work as a team and mentioned that one of the places where they operate is “at the exit of the highway and central street, a place better known as fourth street”, in the municipality San Miguel del Padron.
“Apparently the police cannot do their job, so we are going to take care of our things, that nobody is going to take care of them for you,” he concluded.
In the comments section of the publication, several users of the group not only thanked the warning, but also reported similar experiences.
“There I have seen how horrible things happen. On one occasion a trailer with truck tires was in front of me and two ‘ninjas’ got on and knocked down two of them. I overtook the trailer and signaled to the driver to stop. man stopped and I told him what happened, he was alarmed, but he really couldn’t do anything anymore”, commented a user of the group.
A second commentator claimed to have witnessed a similar incident in that area.
“Last Monday I was at that traffic light behind a gazelle truck that was carrying a tank and other things, there was also a man in the back and even so they tried to do their thing. I saw that there were at least three people, but maybe there are more They don’t care that on the same corner there is a warehouse unit of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), of the fire department that even has posts, they still do their misdeeds,” added another commentator.
Others complained that the police are not aware of such highway robberies and yet are aware of other things.
However, a driver warned that heavy vehicles cannot travel on the aforementioned street.
“The sign is well legible, I recommend you take another alternative route. When they are robbed in that area and it is shown that they are not authorized to transit that way, they will have to pay for the loss of the merchandise. Watch out for that,” she observed.
In the growing wave of robberies and crime that afflicts Cuba throughout the country, there are robberies in the middle of the highway, either in the vicinity of the Havana Airport, on the way to the Santuario del Cobre, in Santiago de Cuba, or in full Havana-Pinar del Río highway.
Warnings are never superfluous and neither are precautions.
