Five young people lived a terrifying moment after they were assaulted by a pair of criminals with machetes while they were in a park in Havana.
The incident, reported by the Cuban youtuber Lorena Maña, sister of one of the victims, was recorded in the municipality of Playa, specifically in the park located on 5th. Avenida and 26th Street, in front of a clinic for foreigners called ‘Cira García’, in Miramar.
The influencer’s brother, identified as Pavel Maña, 16 years old, said that his friends wanted to spend a quiet time in the park after leaving the ‘Arístides Viera’ high school, something that would end up costing them their money, their cell phones and other belongings they carried with them.
According to the YouTuber’s video, the group was preparing to leave the field, but a man and a woman approached and pulled out a machete. The man, who was carrying the knife, watched them while the woman gathered her belongings.
The young man tried to recover his things after the incident, but was unable to reach the couple, so he suspects that there was someone else waiting for them.
“I told those who were with me that why were we going to let them take our phones like that, that we should go after them. I picked up a stone from the floor and fell behind them, but just for fun. They turned the corner and they were gone. Surely there was someone waiting for them.”
According to Maña, the group made the complaint to the Castro authorities, but they had not been able to make a verbal portrait of the criminals because, at that time, there were no experts available.
The young man claims that he spent the entire afternoon at the police station with his friends, but in the end nothing was resolved, so he doubted that they would recover his things.
“They say there were just two experts, I don’t understand that (…). They say the two were on a case on the street. There was no one to do the oral portrait, no one knows. “They said to see if the oral portrait could be done tomorrow,” added the assaulted minor.
The event occurs in the midst of a wave of insecurity that has been increasing in recent months, This while the Cuban authorities do everything possible to deny this increase in crimes..
According to officials from the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), who spoke about the issue in the regime’s propaganda spaces, these events are reported by “foreign agents” or opposition media that receive money in exchange for continuing a “media war.” against the island.
However, many of the facts replicated by the independent press are reported by the people themselves, who take to social networks to complain.
