Gastón Leturia
07/10/2020 - 15:46
- Clarín.com
- Police
While talking, keep working. "I have been doing this for 33 years, since I was 21. I made the colimba and when I finished it I spent a year without working. Only that year. Later, always on top of the truck, in the cast. Mine is work." Rafael Lezcano is 54 years old and is from Buenos Aires, although he lived most of his life in Santos Lugares and later in Villa Bosch. He is the sodero who hit a motorcycle with his vehicle, who together with an accomplice attacked a woman. The scene was recorded by a camera and went viral.
In the same sequence it is seen that his partner, Aarón Padua, 19, gets out of the truck to go over the other criminal, the one who was hitting the woman. After a few seconds of struggling, the thieves ran away. Rafael and Aaron saved the lady's life. Although it sounds like a lot, it is not. Thefts start one way, you never know how they end.
Kaur Parminder is the name of the victim , she is 51 years old and is of Indian nationality, like her husband, Javier. They have a supermarket in the same block where the event occurred, in Cochabamba and Triunvirato, in Villa Bosch. "I did not realize it was him, I saw him once because they are from the neighborhood. I did what I did because I heard the screams and I saw what was happening. I heard those screams and it was as if my old woman,. to download bottles of water and crates of soda.
Both work for Distribuidora Buenos Aires, in that town of the party of Tres de Febrero. Aaron is the son of one of Rafael's colleagues in the company. "I always worked alone, but now he accompanies me because I had hip surgery a year ago and I don't get to do the cast. Here we all know each other, we are like a family. This kid (Aaron) is a man, he's 19 but he's a man who knew how to act in such a situation. Now his leg hurts because the thief hit him, but he is a kid, he will be fine, "says Lezcano.
Rafael has been working for 33 years in the distribution of sodas and waters. He always did it alone until he added Aaron, after having hip surgery.
Insecurity, especially in the GBA, has long since broken the quarantine. Does not know of coronavirus. The attacks returned to their "old normal". In events similar to the one that Kaur suffered and that the soderos starred in, the endings were really dramatic. Without going any further, on Wednesday, also in Tres de Febrero, a 53-year-old woman was shot in the chest in an assault. The thief took out his wallet and got into a van to flee with an accomplice.
Rafael reviews the situation, as he did throughout the day and even the night, in which he could not keep an eye. "It was around two or three in the afternoon, we were going through that block, we heard screaming and saw the situation. I went on to ram the bike, one of the thieves was already upstairs to leave. He wanted to get rid of those vermin on the woman. It was a second. When you think about it later, you say 'I'm crazy, but it worked out well,' "he says.
The duo works between 12 and 13 hours per day, in a cast that has almost 150 clients in routine. You could say they live on the street, where many of these things happen. "It happened to me to see robberies, but I had not acted like that. When they robbed me, I did react once, I even grabbed each other with a thump. But I was 20 years old," Rafael recalls.
"You do not go kill people, do whatever. This occurred well and shows that the good are more. I'm blessed that at this moment I so hard laburar, we have over 100 days of quarantine and people notice It is wrong. And to see that they attack a person like that makes you angry, "he adds.
Rafael admits that it was a risky reaction, albeit a conscious one. "What I did was try to press the man on the bike, against the ground or to fall, as seen in the video. I tried to be as cautious as possible. Soon the wife's husband arrived, because they have the market there to 50 meters. The man was very grateful, "says Rafael, a motor racing fan (" my dream is to go to Monaco, "he confesses) and a former athlete, who has a daughter from his first wife and two other children from his heart, from his current partner.
Before the video went viral, everyone at the distributor had already found out about the fact. "The boys told me 'you're crazy, you're crazy', but I don't feel like I've done anything crazy. I did what came out, like Aaron did. I feel like we all have to do something to be better, it's like this. Help the he needs it and that is what happened ", closes Rafael, the" sodero justiciero ".
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