Global Courant 2023-05-06 01:16:42
It was in Santa Clara to the South, around 2:30 in the morning this Friday. Five armed men entered the two houses, tied everyone up and ransacked them.
There were five thieves and they entered the country Santa Clara al Sur, in San Vicente, around two in the morning on Friday. They had more than 110 options for houses to break into. But they chose two. They handcuffed their victims and through threats they took dollars, pesos, jewelry and electrical appliances. One woman suffered a nervous breakdown and was taken to the local hospital.
But what is unusual in this type of robbery is what happened next: from 3:20 in the morning until around noon, the San Vicente Police and the security agency in charge patrolled the neighborhood in search of the thieves. “We believe that they are inside. Neither the Buenos Aires Police nor private security assure us that they have left,” said a neighbor early in the day.
While Ezequiel, one of the victims, explained: “At 2:30 in the morning, while we were sleeping, 5 armed guys came in. Luckily we’re fine. It was a shitty moment.”
Santa Clara al Sur is one of the largest gated communities in San Vicente. It has 7 stages and 1812 lots. In addition to the more than 110 families already settled, 60 percent of the remaining lots are under construction. This Friday, during the operation to find the gang, the neighborhood continued with its usual movement.
“Private security and the Police should have closed the neighborhood and not let anyone in, search the neighborhood and take a census of people. However, they let all the staff and workers of the construction. It seems that they are covering up the jets,” another neighbor complained.
The Buenos Aires Police suspect that the gang would have entered the country Santa Clara to the South through this sector.
It is that in recent years it was found that some organized gangs “invested” in the rent of a house to settle and rob others. The most serious event occurred in August 2022, when an organized group of Colombians rented a house in a José C. Paz country estate to kidnap the family of a compatriot who had defrauded them of more than 20 million dollars. There are 11 detainees in the case.
Although in the robbery of Santa Clara to the South the thieves could have entered for the funds. That is the suspicion of most of the neighbors. “The perimeter fence has not been finished, there are no high-altitude checkpoints, the security cameras do not work and there is only one mobile phone for internal security. Our expenses increased by 50 percent but the advances in security are very relegated compared to the growth population of the neighborhood”, denounced a neighbor. The developer of the neighborhood is the group Caputo Hermanos SA.
And the neighbor added: “The perimeter security fence is not finished. That would be the blind spot. The Police believe that they entered through there. It has parts that are a permanent invitation to choreo. Private security is also not enough to cover such a neighborhood big. We left the city to come live in a quiet place, but as in the whole country, no one is spared from these events. They have been bullying us for months. Mayor Nicolás Mantezza increased our real estate tax by 400 percent.”
The most common modality in this type of robbery to private homes is that of the “escruche”: thieves who enter the houses when their owners are not there. The trend began to change based on the belief that victims are choosing increasingly sophisticated hiding places to store their savings and jewelry. That is why now the gangs opt for houses where their owners are and threaten them with weapons so that they hand over everything. Although, in case of being arrested, the penalties will be higher.
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