2023-08-25 03:15:00
“Watch out that here we are the victims (…) we are not bad people (…) It seems that the baby is a victim, he is not a victim. That boy was stealing.”.
«It has been as the thing has been, You have no right to break anyone’s spine, except a 15-year-old.. He ruined my son’s life (…) I hope God leaves him for a few days, a while longer (…) It is something incomprehensible what this man did.”.
The first to speak is Vanesa, daughter of the owner of the 24-hour kiosk on Avenida del Trabajador and Cayastá, in Neuquén. There she was robbing Alejandro, 15, when he was shot in the back which left him a quadriplegichow he tells it the author of the second sentence, Javier, his father.
They are not two sides of a coin, not two versions of a story, nor do they balance any scales. With different graduation levels, they are the same side of the coin, extreme victims of the same system.
as reported black river newspaperlast Sunday the 20th at night, in the context of a series of organized robberies in some businesses in Neuquén -14 according to police accounting, in a city that has thousands – one of the assaults occurred at the Cayastá kiosk and Avenida del Trabajador.
A shot in the back
Alejandro, 15 years old, with no history of conflicts with juvenile criminal law according to official sources, joined the robbery and was shot in the back that came out of his chest. He destroyed the seventh vertebra, the father said, and it is very likely that he will never walk once more. For today, He only moves his head, he is on a respirator and his life is in danger.
A witness testified that saw when they shot at him from the roof or from a house in height, and described the alleged perpetrator. The General Action Prosecutor, Valeria Panozzo, awaits the medical and criminal report to define whether to charge the suspect, and what crime he is accused of. The most serious may be attempted homicide aggravated by the use of weapons.
The merchant’s version
Vanesa, daughter of the owner of the kiosk, spoke with AM Cumbre radio. She said that neither she nor her mother were there, and that they found out later that there was a gunshot wound.
Regarding the stolen items, he assured that “they did not touch a cookie, They didn’t touch anything that you say: ‘they’re hungry’. They are not necessities.”
He denounced that “now we are suffering constant persecution, that the premises are going to set fire to us, that they are going to blow up the house».
Vanesa said that she did not know the family, but mentioned comments from the neighbors that are summarized in one expression: “bad people”.
laid bare what appears to be a serious lack of police prevention, which borders on the liberated area. He assured, for example, that in the sector there is a group of adolescents and “We are rotten that they steal our children’s bikes, that they steal the cell phones of the children who go to the schools, they snatch the backpacks from the elderly, pregnant women. They are not interested in anything because they are young and they believe they are unpunished.
Shot at each other?
He ventured that “having a small group of boys who are doing bad things all day, they also have a fight with other groups, that is, I don’t know if the shot was between them.”.
On the statements of the victim’s father, he replied that “they give the version they want. That they investigate everything that has to be investigated because we have nothing to do with it. Now we are threatened, living an ordeal, that they are going to set us on fire, closing the source of income that my mother has”.
«Be careful, here we are the victims. The boy is like this because he has been in bad steps unfortunately“he added.
“I might have fired into the air”
Meanwhile Javier, the adolescent’s father, opined that “this person, instead of pointing at him and hurting him, He might have fired into the air, what he did would not have been so treacherous».
“I don’t want him to leave. I thank the neighborhood that is supporting me with a prayer, I am asking God to leave him for a few more years »he said moved to Channel 7.
Javier opined that “the police, the court, have to act. Whether or not it was like the account he, You have no right to break anyone’s spine.and less to a 15-year-old creature ».
Who denounced?
The case only came to light when the man filed the complaint on Tuesday, 48 hours following the fact. «I don’t speak ill of the police, nothing, you saw, but I believe that judicially, when a gunshot wound falls, the hospital has to react, right?»he asked himself.
As this medium was able to find out, there was no intervention from the Ombudsman for the Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents, nor from the Criminal Ombudsman for Boys, Girls and Adolescents. “It was not requested from the hospital”reported the Public Ministry of Defense.
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