Home of independent journalist Julio Aleaga robbed in Havana

The independent journalistJulio Aleaga Pesant wasvictim of a robbery inside his home in Vedado, in Havana, this Monday morning.

The author or authors of therobo They forced the door of the apartment with a “kickstand” to enter and took a laptop, a bicycle and a tablet, when the journalist and his wife were not at home.

Indeclarations to the portalCubaNet, Aleaga explained that he left the house early in the morning to do some work and his wife Leydis also left, around 8:00 or 8:30, and returned around 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon. “When he arrived the door was propped open,” he said.

“For me the most important thing is the destruction of the door, it is going to be quite difficult to reconfigure it in some way,” lamented the reporter, who in a short video on Facebook referred to the solidity of the wood with which the door was made in the republican era.

Aleaga was alarmed by themode of operation of the robbery. “First time I've seen this here in this neighborhood. They had entered other houses or garages in other, more subtle ways, but entering with a goat's leg and breaking a mahogany door, loudly, is something treacherous, dramatically treacherous," he said worriedly.

The journalist, who is a collaborator of the newspaper14 intervene, drew attention to theincrease in violence in the country and the commission of serious crimes in more “exclusive” areas, such as the neighborhood where he resides, widely visited by Cubans and foreigners due to the presence of private cafes and restaurants, and hotels.

“The only thing that can be expected is when the first assault on foreigners will arrive on this block, on this street,” he warned.

As the wave of violent crime continuesgrowing up in Cuba,The regime denies that murders, assaults, rapes and robberies with the use of force have increased, and blames social networks for the visibility that events of this type have had in recent times.

In the programWe make Cuba, led by the spokesperson of the regime,Humberto Lopez, the head of the Investigation Department of the Directorate of Criminal Procedures,Beatriz de la Peña La O, said that there is a perception among citizens that there are more crimes because the networks give greater visibility to the facts, because the number of people who use the Internet has grown.