Wave of Insecurity Hits Buenos Aires: Saeta Café Robbed in Violent Piranha Attack

2024-04-29 13:29:01

The Saeta café reopened two months ago and this Sunday night it suffered its first robbery.

The historical Saeta coffeelocated in the neighborhood of San Telmowas the target of a new piranha robbery that occurred in the last few hours in the city of Buenos Aires, whose authorities are on alert due to the growing wave of insecurity that has been developing in recent times. On this occasion, a group of criminals entered the premises armed, overpowered the employees who were preparing to close the place and stole the day’s collection and personal belongings of the workers.

Police sources consulted by Infobae They indicated that personnel from the 1F Neighborhood Police Station went to the cafe on Sunday morning, located in Chile and Peru and reopened two months ago. After the attack, they alerted the City Police with a call to 911.

Once there, the victims of the robbery told the agents that four thieves armed men stole cell phones, cash and other valuable belongings, as well as the proceeds from the date. As the store was in full closure, no customers were found inside.

An image of the Saeta café before its reopening.

Then the criminals They fled in a black Ford Focus, whose patent actually belongs to a Citroën C3 that has an early warning for armed robbery in the Barracas area.

The investigation of the incident fell to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 53, in charge of Dr. Matías Di Lello.

The modus operandi was similar to that used by the group of assailants who robbed a pizzeria in the Almagro neighborhood last Wednesday night.

This last event occurred in the Jaimitos pizzeria, located on the corner of México and Virrey Liniers, almost on the border of Almagro with the Boedo neighborhood. It happened minutes following 10 p.m. on Wednesday, when at the premises there were regarding 30 people having dinner. The images captured by the security cameras inside the business show that the thieves entered two by two and through different entrance doors.

Piranha assault in a pizzeria in Almagro

In this way, they surprised customers and employees and began to threaten them to make them hand over their belongings: wallets, money and cell phones. In the video it is observed that Two young men quickly realized the robbery and fled in time through another of the doors. The others, still in disbelief at what was happening, raised their hands and stood still or crouched down for cover while hoping that the situation would soon pass.

In just 56 seconds, the assailants – two of whom wore caps and another who covered his face with a hood – scolded the diners to hand over their belongings. Some were also hit on the head.. Although in the images it is not possible to distinguish the moment in which they went to the cash register, police sources indicated to this medium what They also took the proceeds from the premises. They then escaped in a white Ford Fiesta that was waiting for them outside.

After the calls to 911, members of the Neighborhood Police Station 5B of the City Police went there, but they might not find the criminals, who had fled down México Street towards Sánchez de Loria.

As a result of this fact, investigated by the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 57, which leads Anselmo Castelli, The City Police captured one of the suspects this Sunday morning at a car checkpoint in the Zavaleta neighborhood. He is a minor and has a criminal recordas far as he might know Infobae.

The minor arrested for the robbery at the Almagro pizzeria.

The suspect was not alone, A 16-year-old teenager was arrested with him, also with a criminal record, and two older ones. It occurred during a police check at the intersection of Osvaldo Cruz and Zavaleta avenues in which personnel from the Neighborhood Deployment Department II stopped a red Chevrolet Onix that was being driven by a young man.

The suspect linked to the pizzeria robbery is 17 years old and, according to sources in the case, has a criminal record. robbery, carrying a weapon and aggravated concealment between 2021 and 2023. Furthermore, she had a arrest warrant at the request of the National Juvenile Court No. 5, within the framework of the case for “aggravated robbery in real competition with fraud and computer fraud.”

The other teenager who fell with the suspect of the violent assault in Almagro, 16 years old, also has a criminal record. possession of a weapon of war and robbery aggravated by the use of a weapon.

Faced with the repeated episodes of insecurity that are registered today in CABA, today the Minister of Security of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolffwarned that the vast majority of detainees “are minors,” and many of them “They have multiple antecedents and extensive criminal records.”

“When we detained one of the minors this weekend in the Zavaleta neighborhood He had an arrest warrant, 16 years old, three armed robberies last year. And the rapist we arrested on Friday morning at the Fernández hospital had 11 tickets last year. “He is a homeless person with a history,” Minister Wolff exemplified to justify his statement.

The other minor arrested this Sunday in the Zavaleta neighborhood.

In dialogue with radio Mitrethe Buenos Aires official reiterated the request of the law of repetition. “Jorge Macri asked for it in the campaign and presented the project as soon as the regular sessions in the CABA Legislature returned. This is not resolved by Security. “We need the tools to end this because they have taken our time,” he said.

“They go out to steal knowing that their status as minors under 16 means that they are detained for a very short time., or that they are in conditions where they can be immediately removed. That is why we are convinced that the repetition law is the key to improving the security condition in the City. And it is not an invention, we do not bring it from another country… This already works in Mendoza, Formosa and Santa Cruz…”, he continued.

According to Minister Wolff himself, the reiteration bill, which is already in the Buenos Aires Legislature for treatment, establishes that “if someone commits a crime and there is no obstruction of a crime that is in a position to be imprisonable, he can wait once for his freedom to go to trial, but if he does it a second time, he has to stay inside”, he asserted.

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