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"Don't rob me, I fought in the Malvinas", the desperate request of a former combatant who was assaulted when he was going to be honored

2023-03-17T14:13:51.180Z


It happened in the Las Avenidas neighborhood. They stole his car and his decorations for having participated in the war.


A

former Malvinas combatant was robbed in Mar del Plata

when he was leaving his house to go to an act in which he was going to be honored along with other colleagues with whom he participated in the 1982 war.

"

Don't rob me, I fought in the Malvinas

," the ex-soldier implored unsuccessfully when he was approached when he arrived with his wife at the house of a comrade whom he was looking for to go to the tribute.

The event occurred in the Las Avenidas neighborhood, in Mar del Plata, and the assault was

captured by a security camera

.

The victim of the robbery was former First Corporal Luis Castellini, who was assaulted in front of a colleague's house in Elcano at 5100, between Agote and Fleming.

The three criminals who approached them took the car, but according to the Mar del Plata media who spoke with relatives of the victim, what hurt him the most was that they stole "

the decorations

he had with him and his military beret that had been left in the car." .

The same relatives pointed out that the criminals "laughed in his face" when he told them that he was an ex-combatant.

The moment of the robbery in Mar del Plata.

In the sequence captured by the security camera, the ex-combatant and his partner are observed getting out of the white Volkswagen car.

Seconds after activating the alarm and before entering the house of the colleague they were looking for, three armed criminals assaulted them.

Violently and pointing weapons at them, they took their belongings, including their jackets, and they got into the car and escaped.

Nightmare at the exit of a bingo

Insecurity punishes Mar del Plata like so many other Buenos Aires cities.

If the violent assault on the ex-combatant from the Malvinas and his desperate request for him caused a commotion, the kidnapping and robbery of a 78-year-old woman at the exit of a bingo hall, even more so.

It all happened a couple of weeks ago in the heart of La Feliz and around the corner from the General Pueyrredón 1st Police Station.


The 78-year-old woman suffered a violent robbery when she was leaving Bingo Sol: the "car attendant" forced her to get into her own car, kidnapped her, robbed her and took the vehicle.

With the woman resigned and scared, the supposed "car attendant" took the wheel of the vehicle and left at high speed through San Martín.

The fact ratified, according to the police themselves, by the security cameras that are in place.

After several

blocks of intimidation

and while driving the victim's car, the driver violently took the woman's wallet.

Finally, at the intersection of Berutti and Chile streets, he made the victim get off and continue on foot.

Obviously, he took the Ford Fiesta car.

Source: clarin

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