The police run over by thieves who beat all medical predictions and was mom

Luis Moranelli

05/15/2021 2:58 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 05/15/2021 2:59 PM

I was scared.

Entering a hospital stirred up the worst memories.

The 32 surgeries, the pain and an endless recovery.

It was hard to put that behind her, but she was convinced that this time it would be different.

He confirmed it when he felt the midwife squeeze his hand and saw his mother's smile.

He knew he had

beaten the medical prognoses

.

The thieves who destroyed her body did not prevent her from being a mother.

Izán was the proof of his miracle.

María Belén González lives with her 2-year-old son in Claypole.

He just turned 28 and feels like six years ago he was born again.

It was on July 29, 2019. He worked as a Buenos Aires policeman in the Avellaneda Patrol Command.

She left there dressed in her uniform and traveled by train to the Solano station to meet her aunt.

Belén still feels the scars from the 32 surgeries she underwent.

But his son gives him strength.

"I wake up every day for him," he explains.

Photo Lucia Merle.

As they walked together to get home, they heard a car speed up.

Belén pushed her aunt but couldn't avoid the car.

They ran her over three times, back and forth

, until they saw that she was not moving.

Then they got out of the car, stole his gun and escaped.

The doctors who treated her at the Arturo Oñativia hospital gave her a

few hours to live

.

He had a broken clavicle, hip, femur, tibia, fibula, pelvis and skull.

She was hospitalized for two and a half months.

When he had decided to surrender, he received a message from Carlos Tevez.

"I was giving myself but hearing his voice made me want to have surgery and continue, because my idol was telling me so," Belén tells

Clarín

.

Belén with Carlos Tevez, the day the Boca captain gave him his shirt.

He had sent her a key message when the young woman was hospitalized,

Then came rehab.

Three times a week from Solano to the Fitz Roy Medical Center, in Villa Crespo, for months.

He had to learn to walk.

Step by step, holding onto a bar.

Then came the hours of cycling, exercises with kinesiologists and more operations.

In the middle of his recovery, he visited Tevez in the Bombonera and took a shirt signed by the Boca captain.

“I would like you to find me again.

When I was with him he barely walked, slowly, with a splint.

I want him to see that I'm fine and tell him that it

was

partly

thanks to the strength he gave me

, ”he says.

His tribute is in the form of a tattoo with the footballer's signature.

That fanaticism for Tevez and Boca transmitted it to his son Izán.

"He is humming court songs all day," he says.

The boy's father disappeared after she told him she was pregnant.

Half of what he charges as a retired police officer goes to his rent.

With the rest, she survives as best she can: “It's very difficult to be a mom and dad at the same time.

Luckily I have the help of my family.

They are the only ones who never abandoned me ”.

The rehab was tough.

He had to relearn how to walk and strengthen his legs.

Photo Clarín Archive

His main anger is with the Buenos Aires.

"They left me lying," he

denounces.

While he was in rehabilitation he received a subsidy.

But once it was put into retirement, that income disappeared.

The complaints led her to the PO.BO.HA foundation, where they advise injured officers on duty.

“When I met her I was resigned.

He gave up all his claims.

Bureaucracy and laziness had tired her.

Finally, we managed to get the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security to sign a resolution to re-grant her the subsidy that corresponds to her for having been incapacitated.

He has to collect it again shortly, ”says lawyer and former police officer Ricardo Galeano, president of PO.BO.HA

The foundation was

a refuge

for Bethlehem

.

“I went through a lot of disappointments at this time.

They promised me an apartment in Ezeiza and when I went to see it, it was already occupied.

They did not pay me for several months, in the middle of the pandemic, and I had a bad time.

But when I learned about other cases, I realized that I was not alone, that there were many colleagues in the same situation and that we had to work to change that, ”she explains.

The doctors had told her that because of the fractures she had suffered, she could not be a mother.

"Izán is a miracle. I want him to be proud of everything his mother went through."

Photo Lucia Merle.

Despite the anger, he would choose the same career again: “

I love being a police officer and I will always be one in my heart.

Everything bad about the Force hurts, but there are good people and I surround myself with that ”.

His anger is also with the lack of justice.

"One of the detainees was released because they could not verify that it was one of those who ran me over. Another is dead, and the third is imprisoned but for another case.

I feel abandoned and forgotten,

" she laments.

During the most difficult times, family and friends help her to make ends meet.

When he can, he sells clothes, although the scars from time to time remind him that they are there.

“I was left with a disability of having a slightly shorter leg.

As a result of all this, I still have pain that sometimes

does not let me sleep

, but since I am breastfeeding my baby, I do not take medication.

Being a mom gives me the strength to continue.

I have no choice but to get up ”, he explains.

The dream of studying radiology, as he had told

Clarín

in 2016, during a talk at the rehabilitation center, has for now been postponed.

She is focused on raising Izán.

“I want him to be proud of his mom.

Let him know that he was a miracle

and that I will never leave him alone ”.

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