2023-08-21 14:49:00
During the weekend, the Neuquén Police registered several robbery attempts in the capital provincial, which added to what happened in Cutral Co, for which there were six detainees. The Prosecutor’s Office reported that during this Monday they will make the accusations. The The situation began with a WhatsApp audio that called to “loot the Jumbo”detected by the security forces and for which a security operation was mounted that extended to different commercial sectors.
In general, in the facts were detected small groups of peopleof up to 20 members, who know each other, they arrive and leave places together. However, each group has no connection to the others.
He Chief Commissioner Walter San Martín detailed to Diario RÍO NEGRO the details of each event.
Audio was detected on Thursday that circulated on WhatsApp in which it was called to “loot the Jumbo”. Faced with this alert, the police set up a security operation in large-area stores, as they are called supermarkets.
Although, according to the agent, the night passed quietly, it was decided to hold the operation during the long weekend, as a precaution. In addition, they extended it to different commercial areas of Neuquén capital.
It was in this context that the attempted theft of a group of hooded men, in the supermarket “Limay”on Río Senguer street, on Saturday night.
The workers lowered the curtains, one of the hooded failed to escape and is stopped.
The event was filmed by customers and employees, these footage went viral and a state of alert began among different merchants, in the midst of a disinformation context and high circulation of events from other locations and years, as if they were current and local.
Two of the company’s supermarkets The Anonymous were the target of the facts of this weekend.
at the branch of Antarctica and Catriel a man was arrested Saturday night. On Sunday morning, there was a new entry with theft of merchandise. The troops detected a Chevrolet Prisma that was waiting for the group and stopped them. It was about four men and a young man.
In the Godoy and Marin branch, a group of about 15 or 20 people tried to enter the premises around 1 am this Monday. Were two men arrested and the rest escaped.
During the yesterday afternoon, sundaythere were also attempted robberies in three different supermarkets.
One was in the Colón 3, on Richieri street, in the Confluencia neighborhood. A group of between 15 and 20 people entered with their faces covered, took items and injured the police officers. Agents from the Special Police Services Department (Despo) and the Metropolitan Police had to intervene to calm the situation, San Martín said. Finally, there were no detainees.
A similar event occurred in the eternal 3from Santa Teresa and Borlenghi, when some 15 or 20 hooded men tried to enter and were prevented by the police.
Another was in the Maxi supermarket, from Rodhe and Belgrano. Also, a group of people tried to rob. A man and two young men were arrested. During the night, in addition to the uniformed men, the owners and employees stationed themselves in the place to protect it.
Robbery attempts: what happened in western Neuquén with the group that was in cars and trucks
The self-protection of premises It is a measure that the West Side Merchants of the city, given this panorama and two specific situations that occurred in the sector.
The president of the Neuquén Chamber of Commerce, Georgina Ñanco, expressed: “these they are made of vandalism, It’s not hunger, they are taking advantage of this moment to do this type of vandalismIt is not the people who do not have enough money to make ends meet«.
“Were small groups, but they are all connected by the networks », told the president of the Chamber of Commerce. “They were organized to do this type of vandalism,” she said.
Chief Commissioner San Martín explained that they detected a group of people moving in cars and in a black Toyota Hilux van. First they tried to rob Cuenca XV and then they went to a butcher shop in the Hibepa neighborhood.
The patrolmen intercepted them and The driver of the truck was arrestedwhile the vehicle was hijacked.
San Martín pointed out that the last registered event was a attempted robbery in a kiosk on Cayastá streetthis morning, for which two young people were delayed.
Robbery attempts: what happened at the Cutral Co supermarket
In Cutral Co, six people were accused of “theft calamitous in degree of attempt, as co-authors».
According to the prosecution, everything happened on Saturday, at the branch of La Anónima from the town, around 20.
Three women waited on the external stairs for half an hour for three men and entered the store. They put merchandise in consortium bags and went to the door to leave without paying, but two policemen prevented it and, together with the reinforcements that arrived later, stopped the group.
According to the chief prosecutor, Gastón Liotard (who made the accusation together with the prosecutor Gabriela Macaya) that outside a group of people, who were waiting for the detainees, threw stones at the troops.
According to the prosecution, the defendants were motivated by “the current socioeconomic situation” and They stated that they were “looting”.
The detainees were ordered to one month of house arrest and the same term was set for the investigation.
Robbery attempts in Neuquén: the request not to go viral
Senior Commissioner Walter San Martín told the public not to hesitate to call the police when they detect an abnormal situation and asked them to be alert.
Besides, requested not to viralize (that is, share) messages and videos.
The reality is that during the weekend a lot of content was shared on social networks that did not correspond to current events or Neuquén. Messages without context or sources were also disseminated.
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