Cubans seek to identify the repressor who brutally beat a woman in protest in Vedado

Cuban activists launched a message through social networks for citizens to help identify the repressor who this Saturday brutally beat a woman who was demonstrating inthe protests that broke out in the Havana neighborhood of Vedado.

“Cubans on Social Networks ask to share photos of this repressor to identify him. #CubaEstadoFallido,” indicated the Twitter account @CubaSpaces, sharing images of the brutal attack.

In a sequence of three photographs spread on social networks, what appears to be an argument between a protester and a supporter of the regime who is part of a mob of repressors who advance around Línea Street, dressed in civilian clothes, but with some wearing uniforms from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT).

In the second snapshot you can see the moment in which a man brutally hits the protester, apparently in the face. Her tilted body indicates that the force of the blow causes her to fall to the ground. Next to him, a young woman seems to want to stop the argument while another man watches the attack unperturbed.

The third image shows the protester lying on the sidewalk, on the corner of Línea and F, while other repressors pass by her without flinching, including a MININT officer.

“These three photos speak for themselves. They also begin to tell how they have been removing protesters from their homes the next day. The order to repress @DiazCanelB has been given and on these bases he wants to negotiate with @POTUS. #Protests #SOSCuba #Cuba”, indicated the Cuban activist and independent journalistMaria Matienzo on their social networks.

Following the call to identify the repressor in the image, a Cuban Internet user shared a publication on his social networks in which he allegedly identified one of the men in the image. From his physical features it seems to be not the one who hits the protester, but rather the one who watches impassively by her side.

"Discovered repressor of women in demonstrations in Cuba. Capable of hitting women in the demonstration, making them fall to the ground. This isYurieski Simon, lawyer, Castro-communist official of the National Directorate of the Young Computer Club. Criminal servant of the regime. "It is part of the UJC's rapid response brigades," he indicated.

This wording cannot confirm the alleged identification. However, Simón was contacted on Facebook by the activistIliana Hernandez, reporterCyberCuba, who asked him if he knew about the reported events, sharing the image of the attack. "Kisses," Simón replied.

The shocking sequence of photographs was taken by the Spanish photographerRamon Espinosa, Associated Press (AP) reporter,who was also brutally attacked by riot troops of the Cuban regime when he offered news coverage in Havana tothe historic 11J protests in Cuba.

This Saturday, groups from State Security, the Police and Rapid Response Brigades surrounded the protesters who gathered near Línea and G, according to the testimony ofArián Cruz Álvarez, better known on social networks as Tata Poet.

Suddenly, according to his story,They began to “deliver brutal blows.” and they pushed the protesters towards Calzada Street, which was completely dark.

Once there, the repression became more violent, hitting minors, “teenagers aged 15 and 16.” Cruz Álvarez was unable to record the violent actions of the regime's repressors with his cell phone, but he intervened to help two young people who were being beaten.

“I was shocked when I saw that crazy beating. There was a boy, I think his name was José Antonio, whose face was disfigured by beatings. Another 17-year-old boy had his nose and cheekbone broken, and his face was covered in bruises. "They were detained with me," said the activist whom the repressors arrested at the Zapata y C police station, in Havana's Vedado, and whose partner is still detained on charges of "contempt."

Given the lack of electricity, water and food, Havana residents have demonstrated for four days in a row, taking to the streets of impoverished neighborhoods - which since 11J have known the feeling of demonstrating against the government - but also of the so-called "coastal municipalities." , where the “upper classes” of the regime (officials, cadres, leaders, military) and the diplomatic corps reside.

The collapse of the electrical system in Cuba and the inability of the authorities to solve it have led Cubans to take to the streets again, blocking the way with human barricades or those built with branches, garbage containers and burning tires. The banging of pots and pans happens daily in towns and cities, while confusion and fear take over the authorities, whose only response is empty rhetoric and increasing repression.