A Cuban resident in the city of Las Tunas, victim of an attempted robbery in his home that was marked by extreme violence, he explained the actions of the police, who did not immediately send a patrol and said that the crime would only be recorded as “property damage.”
As referred Sacramento Jose Acebo Hidalgovictim of the vandalization of her home, called the police on August 8 to report that her home had just been attacked “by several individuals who, shouting, they broke my door with a crowbarkickstand”.
Four hours after the call and without knowing the exact time of the arrival of the police, because they were told so, the agents only told him that based on the current Penal Code, the fact would only be registered as “property damage”.
“It seems to me that if a citizen calls the unit at 2:30 a.m. and denounces that he has just been the victim of a violent attack in his own home, it is not comfortable to hear in response (after asking when they would come) that They were going to send him the police car, but he couldn’t be sure when it would arrive… much less certain, it seems to me, that they assured that, according to the new penal code, that would only be listed as ‘property damage’… The least of it! It’s the door!” the man wrote.
Upon arriving at the house, according to his testimony, an expert and an assistant from the Ministry of the Interior collected all the detached boards (to look for traces), arguing that they were young people who had just left a party.
However, the man explained that the vandalization of his home, in danger of collapse, has been quite frequent.
These “very strange thieves”, as he described them, have jumped over the fence to enter his patio, knock on his door at dawn, knock on the door of his kitchen in ruins, enter to search his papers in his absence.
“Those who have touched me seem to be interested in nothing but to be disturbing, to intimidateas if they wanted convince me to leave the place or put it up for sale, as if they wanted me to believe that my life was in danger and make me nervous. It seems strange and coincidental to me,” he recounted.
Acebo Hidalgo indicated last week that early Tuesday morning the blows began at his home, which he believes were like an ax or mandarria, something that he described as a “blatant assault” as if he were “in a country of armed gangs in a movie of vikings”.
The man said that not only did he yell when he realized what was happening, but he also heard other neighbors scream from their homes. Acebo Hidalgo said that finally the criminals, who he believes were between four and six, ran away.
