The Cuban authorities detained in Santiago de Cuba three individuals who confessed to having assaulted and beaten the parents of the Cuban Catholic priest Leandro Naun. Two of those involved according to the Facebook page Santiago de Cuba a day, related to the ruling party, have been previously prosecuted for theft.
The page added that one of the detainees is 27 years old and the other two, 21, without giving further details about their identities. All, he emphasized, have “terrible social behavior.” Last Monday three masked men broke into the house of the priest’s parents around midnight, located in the Santa María neighborhood (Santiago de Cuba). When they found out, they beat Elsy Hung, the priest’s mother, and hit her father, Nelson Naun, on the head with a machete.
This Saturday the priest, who is visiting Italy, reported through his social networks that his father was able to get out of bed and take his first steps, after being admitted to the provincial hospital. “He has already eaten and is speaking very coherently,” he assured.
The wounded man underwent surgery for the assault suffered, according to the priest, “continues to progress satisfactorily and responds to treatment. The inflammation has decreased.” Last Tuesday he announced that the impact on the head “did not seem to have seriously affected him, but he was under observation.”
Last Monday three masked men broke into the house of the priest’s parents around midnight, located in the Santa María neighborhood (Santiago de Cuba).
Regarding his mother Elsy, he stressed that “she suffered some blows, without major ills, according to the medical examination carried out.”
The last week of May, the rector of the church of San Francisco, in Santiago de Cuba, Eliosbel Pereira, was attacked with a machete to steal his motorcycle. He had to undergo surgery to reconstruct his hand.
The church of San Charbel and Santo Tomás de Villanueva, located in the Havana municipality of Playa, was looted on April 29. They took horns, lamps, fans, as well as a Paschal candle.
The Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC) stressed that crime and citizen insecurity worsened in Cuba. According to official figures, in the first three months of the year there were 10 murders in the different provinces in an attempt to steal a telephone, a gold chain or a DIESEL.
The parish of the Sacred Heart and the chapel of Jesús Obrero, located in El Vedado, have also suffered robberies. Both enclosures are in charge of the critical priest of the regime, Lester Zayas.
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