“My children don't want to be left alone at any time.
They don't want to go alone or to the bathroom
, they are terrified,” says Cinthia behind the bars of the front window of her house to
Clarín
.
She doesn't even open the mosquito net, she is quartered.
She and her family still suffer from the shock they received on Wednesday, when her husband, Gonzalo, had her truck stolen
in the presence of her eldest son, 10 years old, in Aldo Bonzi, La Matanza.
The image captured by the security camera at Cinthia and Gonzalo's house is the following: a Volkswagen Amarok parks on Ana María Janer, almost on the corner of José Alico, when six motorcycles with ten men on board surround it and, at gunpoint,
father and son go down
.
The boy runs out to the opposite sidewalk, raises his hands and kneels, as a sign of surrender, while the thieves continue
targeting his father
.
“What my son did is what we taught him to do in a possible case like this:
we are tired of the insecurity in the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, we have to naturalize this state of alert,” adds Cinthia.
Her intention is not to talk to the media, in fact she asks that no photos be taken of her.
It's because she wants her children (the youngest is 5 years old) to be distracted from being scared;
48 hours after the robbery, she almost didn't make it.
She doesn't want to leave his house, not even to the front patio, but helplessness overcomes her, and she explains to Clarín what happened.
Gonzalo, her husband who works as a driver in a logistics company, was returning from the neighborhood club where his son plays soccer.
It was approximately 7:20 p.m. when she heard the noise of many motorcycles.
The woman looked out the window that faces the street from her house and she saw that they were aiming at her husband, so she started screaming.
“At that moment, my youngest son started screaming and I managed to scream too,
to ask for help, for someone to call the police
.
When they heard me,
they pointed to the window
from the street ,” Cinthia recalls.
But there was no one on the street.
“This is
a liberated zone
,” says Lucas, who has a car wash and car dealership in front of Gonzalo and Cinthia's house.
In the afternoon this is no man's land.”
He says that he believes he was saved by pure luck: five minutes earlier, a customer came to his dealership to inquire about a gray Amarok TDI V6 that he has on display.
He advised her that it was better to take the vehicle for a spin, to test it, since staying in the corner seemed dangerous for both of them.
A few minutes later, less than ten, he says, the place left by the Amarok that he has for sale
was occupied by Gonzalo's white Amarok.
Robbery in Aldo Bonzi, La Matanza.
A boy ended up run over in front of motorcycle jets.
How did the sequence follow?
Gonzalo shouted, while being pointed at by the thieves, to his 10-year-old son to get up (since he was kneeling, exhausted) and to run through Alico to some place and take refuge there.
The boy did it in a delicatessen that Daniel, another neighbor, has a few meters from Gonzalo's house.
The lunch boy, in turn, knows the boy, since he is a friend of his nephew.
“He came crying, very scared, and huddled under the counter.
He couldn't really say what was happening, but I sensed it: the six motorcycles first passed through the door of the deli and, when they saw that my neighbor was parking, they made a U-turn in the middle of the street and ran over him," says Daniel. .
While he talks to this chronicler, three ladies, upon listening to the conversation, begin to
list robberies that they suffered
or that they know about and that happened nearby.
A woman says, while she is choosing a pionono, that two months ago a car was stolen from her in front of the Villa Celina pharmacy where she works;
She also says that her two co-workers have also had their cars stolen.
Another woman gives details of an entree at Bonzi while she chooses which cheese to buy.
Finally, the third lady, who had remained silent until then, asks:
“And where is Mayor Espinoza?
Does the media know anything?”
As soon as the thieves took his truck, Gonzalo ran to the delicatessen where his son was.
He didn't want to leave or move from his position under the counter.
It was his mother who was able to achieve it.
“Only when we told him that his younger brother was crying and wanted to see him did my eldest son come out of hiding
,” Cinthia details.
Moments later, the street chief from the Aldo Bonzi Subpolice Station approached Gonzalo and Cinthia's house to offer support and gather information about the robbery.
According to Cinthia, he did it in his own car and not in a patrol car, as would be expected.
According to Lucas, the owner of the car wash and dealership, the street boss driving his own car is normal.
“There are no patrol cars, you don't see them on the street,”
he adds.
He doesn't suspect the police, that's what he says, because he knows the street boss and also the area commissioner.
"Do you see patrol cars passing by, Hernán?" Lucas asks a worker at his laundry.
"No. Only in the morning the gendarmes walk by, but after noon they leave," Hernán reinforces, while wringing a cloth with which he dries the cars.
He also thinks that they are poorly managed: he says that five patrol cars are usually stationed on Bufano Avenue, on Route 4, to carry out traffic controls, but none of them patrol the neighborhood.
“I feel a little lonely,” says Lucas.
I put myself in Gonzalo's place and think about my case: I have several cars for sale.
What happens if six motorcycles appear at my location?
They ruin my life in a minute.”
He lists other robberies in the area:
last Friday, at gunpoint and at ten at night, they took a Peugeot 308 from the corner of his laundry
, the same block where Gonzalo was robbed.
The same Friday, twenty minutes and a block apart, and with shots fired, another car was stolen from a neighbor.
Gonzalo's truck
appeared two hours after the robbery in Esteban Echeverría
, on provincial route 4, completely intact and well parked.
The police found it as they issued an alert about the patent.
At the Aldo Bonzi Subpolice Station they know a few more things: that although the van was found intact,
the identification cards and other papers were missing from it, as well as the child seat of the youngest of Gonzalo's children.
What else could the police say so far?
There are no detainees,
but there are some details: that one of the motorcycles with which Gonzalo and his son were robbed had been stolen moments before, in Tapiales;
and that they used the Amarok to steal, in turn, another motorcycle a few blocks away, in Plaza Martín Fierro de Aldo Bonzi.
Everything was the result of
security camera expertise.
“When we went to file a report about the theft of the truck, we found the kid who
was reporting the theft of his motorcycle from our truck,”
says Cinthia.
And she continues: “Unfortunately, I think it will continue to happen until there is a political decision.
La Matanza is no man's land
, wherever you go there is insecurity.
It remains for us, as neighbors, to take precautions and get rid of material things.
And not to react, as I taught my son.”
S.C.