A foreigner donates $ 400 thousand to Luis Chocobar: 'For me he is a hero, Argentina needs many like him'

Javier Firpo

06/04/2021 15:29

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 06/04/2021 3:29 PM

Ludwig Eisenbock is 72 years old, he is German, from Munich, and he is in the real estate business.

He is single, lover of photography and traveling to South America.

He says he is grateful "to

be German to work and earn money, but not to enjoy life

, because in Germany it is more difficult to enjoy and relax."

That is why for more than forty years he has traveled to Argentina, where he bought a house in Calingasta, San Juan province.

A reader of the

Clarín

newspaper

, "devourer" of the Police section, Ludwig closely followed the case of the police officer Luis Chocobar (34), who gained resonance for coming to the defense of the American tourist Joe Wolek (57) and killing his attacker Juan Pablo Kukoc ( 18) of two bullets.

"

The news caught me from the first moment I read it

, I followed every article from 2017 to the last, a few days ago, when Chocobar was sentenced to two years in suspended prison, which made

me very angry and sad,

" he says.

"

For me Chocobar is a hero

and Argentina, a country that I know from La Quiaca to Tierra del Fuego and from Mendoza to Buenos Aires,

needs more police like Chocobar, who don't look the other way

, and also more ordinary people like Chocobar , that they take sides, that they react to situations of robbery and aggression such as those experienced by the North American tourist ", Ludwig makes himself understood between a hesitant Castilian and a more fluent English.

"Chocobar exceeded, I regret that he had not arrived a minute earlier at the scene of the attack, since he could have reacted with the attackers red-handed and legally."

Saddened by the situation of the policeman, disqualified for five years to practice as a public official, Ludwig contacted this newspaper to act as a bridge with Fernando Soto, Chocobar's lawyer, in order to send him "not just a hug and my admiration, but I

want to collaborate with him by donating 400 thousand pesos

, which I understand is the embargo imposed by the Justice ". Correct data, confirmed by Fernando Soto, Chocobar's lawyer: "He has a current nominal garnishment, which he cannot pay due to lack of assets."

This initiative began to revolve around Ludwig after reading on the internet that a collection had been made in which

until this Thursday it exceeded 2.5 million pesos that will go to the brand new Chocobar Foundation

, whose main objective is to provide legal assistance, technical, psychological, medical, health, social, nutritional and economic to members of the security forces throughout the country. "

When I found out about this news, I did not hesitate,

" says the German citizen in conversation with this medium through a video call.

Why his devotion to the Buenos Aires agent? "Because the victim could have been me

,

I

am also like that tourist,

an amateur photographer who had been in La Boca a few weeks before the attack in 2017

, that is why it affected me so much. I understand that Chocobar went too far and I regret that

a minute before the scene of the attack

, since he could have reacted with the attackers red-handed and legally ".

Born in Münich, Ludwig recalls that the first time he arrived in Argentina was in 1983: "I came from Alaska with my motorcycle on the Panamericana and I decided to get to Ushuaia. I fell in love with the Andes Mountains and unique panoramic views Since then, I traveled more and more often until I

began to feel something strong for the country.

Argentina gave me a lot, the best memories of my life are there, meals, friends, women, tango, I enjoy dancing the tango.

For all this I decided to help Chocobar, because I want to feel safer when I'm there

. "

"It does my soul good to know that I am helping someone who tried to defend a tourist," says Ludwig Eisenbock.

Single, without children, with a Bolivian girlfriend in San Juan, Ludwig retraces his steps: "Yes, okay, Chocobar's reaction could have been a mistake, but he didn't have time to think, he came out in defense of that tourist because

There is an absent State that does not protect me as a tourist investing in Argentina

. I still need to speak Spanish better, but I know Argentina a lot and I know the insecurity that there is,

it takes many Chocobars to end crime

, with motorcycle jets , which are an endemic and unsolvable evil. "

In Germany it is already midnight. From there Ludwig recounted his experiences of insecurity in Argentina. "

I feel like a victim of thieves and motorcycle jets

. They have assaulted me on several occasions and a month ago my house in San Juan was emptied, thieves entered and took items worth close to $ 4,000 and

that happened because they did not there was a Chocobar that defended my property, "he

details.

Ludwig says he has no money to spare, but he is not short on it either. "I have a lot of taxes in Germany and maintaining the house and the taxes of my other house in San Juan is not cheap, but

I am willing to transfer about $ 2,500, which although it is money, does not change my life

. in Chocobar's shoes and I know he shouldn't be having a good time and I think this money will lift his spirits, "he says.

Soto, the agent's lawyer, was pleasantly surprised by the initiative of the German citizen and was communicating this Friday to coordinate how to carry out the transaction.

"It is good for my soul to know that I am helping someone who tried to defend a tourist

. Although I don't feel like an Argentine anymore, I don't feel like a foreigner in Argentina either, so I think morally I feel that I can't look the other way" , closes Ludwig.

Chocobar's word

Amazed and excited, Luis Chocobar attends

Clarín

, who tells him what Ludwig Eisenbock will do in the next few hours: "The truth is that I did not expect that someone from another country, so far from our reality, could first find out what happened, how were the facts and then I had the delicacy to think about myself.

Although I am very ashamed to receive money, I learned to accept it, leaving pride aside

".

Actions such as the national collection of more than 2.5 million shook a Chocobar, although he admitted that "

at first I thought it was a joke

, 'what are they going to think of me!', I believed. But with initiatives like that or this one from a private individual

one feels less alone,

less abandoned and unprotected

and I think this news makes me think that society is not as inhumane as it sometimes seems.

Sometimes the other matters ... And

I don't want to victimize myself

, uh, my God put me in this place for something and I understand that my path is marked, "he says with a broken voice.

Luis Chocobar withdraws from the Courts of Comodro Py after hearing the sentence.

Photo Juano Tesone

The police officer, who does not know what awaits him within the Force but is convinced that he wants to become a lawyer, feels that other airs are blowing "after having spent horrible years, that I do not wish them on anyone.

Today I see one a more awakened society, with the need to intervene and not to look from the outside

and film what happens with a camera, "slides Chocobar, interested in knowing how the German citizen became interested in him.

He is speechless when he is told that Ludwig Eisenbock, from Munich, followed the Chocobar court with more anxiety than a Bayern game. "It does not fit in my head that someone from another world wants to do such good. I appreciate it infinitely and I will be forever in debt. I must admit that

I am in a very difficult economic time

, I have the support of my daughter, and that is why I have to be doing money, "he hints at his emotion.

Chocobar says that to earn a little more money "

I buy socks from a wholesaler and I spend many hours walking the street and selling at fairs

like the one in Parque Patricios. And I take out some pesos that are good for me, my rings do not fall at all. "I have no other possibilities, today is what there is and

for me it is an opportunity that life is giving me

. If they recognize me on the street? Some do, but I keep myself with a low profile, in the greatest silence possible".

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