He stole some sneakers and ran into a karate champion sensei who left him shaking

Maia had

02/18/2021 7:20 PM

• Clarín.com

• Zonal

Updated 02/18/2021 7:45 PM

In the absence of police in the pedestrian

Pergamino, a neighboring

world karate champion,

was in charge of preventing a thief from getting away with it after stealing some shoes from a store located on Calle San Nicolás al 500 this Wednesday around 10:30.

Eduardo Rocchi

is 53 years old and since he was

ten

he has been practicing martial arts.

When he saw the criminal flee after the robbery, he intercepted him and paralyzed him with

karate shots

, preventing him from escaping.

Rocchi is not improvised: he represented the

Argentine national team

in various competitions

and was

the country's

champion

.

In addition, he won the provincial medal nine times, which allowed him to travel to various parts of the world and participate in international tournaments.

“I started karate from a very young age, I always liked sport.

When I started to practice, over time I saw that I was very skilled at this, that it was my thing.

He had a conviction with this.

In the sports part, I did very well, I had an intense and very long sports career in the 90s and 2000s, "Rocchi told Clarín Zonal.

"This should end."

Eduardo Rocchi, exhausted from insecurity and without thinking twice, stopped the thief.

When referring to the capture of the thief, the karate fighter emphasizes that he acted purely by instinct: “I was in the middle of a pedestrian, where there are three or four places where people have breakfast outside and have their coffee, very crowded.

We started to hear screaming and I was on my back at a table to the side with some friends.

There were runs, shouts: "catch him", "thief".

I get up, I turn around and see that someone comes jumping benches and a motorcycle.

On the way, he accidentally hits or pushes an elderly person, I imagined that he was the one who had done something ”.

Continuing with what happened, the

sensei

affirms that he walked 10 meters and crosses him on the way.

Having knowledge of a defense technique, he blocks it and thus throws it to the ground.

When the thief was found helpless, Rocchi felt him for a weapon and asked him if he was accompanied.

According to what the man replied, he was alone and had no recourse to defend himself.

“First I wanted to get away and fight.

I calmed him down a bit, told him that he wasn't going to move from there.

People wanted me to

hit him

or strip him, some shouted.

All the people were standing, but nobody was doing anything ”.

The karate teacher added that he did not want to get involved with the fact, “he did not intend to go to testify because I know that

they will release him later

, the truth is that.

I just act, as I would have acted at any time ”.

At that moment, according to Rocchi's statements, the employees of the premises who were robbed approached and he begins to remove the belongings from the backpack, as seen in the video.

"The boy was already

trembling

at the end because people get nervous, everything that happens is very crazy," he adds.

Following the story, the world champion confesses that when the event happened, there were

no police officers

from the Province of Buenos Aires present.

“We were there for three to four minutes, they had to call the police in the middle of the pedestrian area.

I think that after seven minutes the heavy patrol came.

Taking into account the sensei's story, a federal policeman who was guarding the ANSES at that time, upon seeing the tumult of people, approached to check if everything was in order.

After the neighbors told him what happened, he was in charge of putting him on the patrol, but it is still not known with certainty if the thief is in a police station.

“From there I think there was a

problem between the federal government and the province

, because one of them released him and I don't really know what happened.

I have no news of the situation.

If I know that afterwards all the patrol cars fell, the motorized ones, there was a policewoman trying to get the person in charge to make the complaint because if she didn't, they would have to release him.

Those things that always happen ”, commented Rocchi, tired of the insecurity.

“What I do know is that

people don't get involved, they

do

n't get involved

.

People are very afraid of violence because no one even came close to having their feet.

The truth is that we are a bit beaten, I think like everyone else and like all of Argentina.

This should end, I don't know how, or in what way, but it should.

Surprised that no one took action ”, he concluded.

MR

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