They ask for help to identify the attacker of two children in Havana

A Cuban woman went to her social networks to ask for help with the identification of an alleged criminal who assaulted two minors and he stole their cell phones after threatening them with a knife.

This was reported by the user identified in as Lupe Arcelo Sánchez, who offered a reward to anyone who provides the identification of the young man who supposedly committed the crime, and which was recorded on a security camera video.

“I will give a reward to whoever manages to identify that kid who, around two and a bit in the afternoon, assaulted my grandson and his little friend at the same entrance to my building. The assailant is black, young, a teenager, with a piercing bull, tattoo on one of the legs on the back in the shape of an eye, he was wearing a white sleeveless sweater and shorts over blue or purple," said the victim's grandmother.

The events occurred in the exclusive neighborhood of Miramar, in the Playa municipality of Havana, where there is an abundance of police presence due to the large number of embassies, diplomatic corps residences, foreign firms and homes of senior officials of the Cuban regime.

According to what was reported by the user, the suspect followed his grandson and his friend a few blocks, “to the very entrance of the building.” On the way he started a conversation with them and, once he had inspired their trust, “he snatched their phones and threatened them with a knife.”

“Any information, or someone from here in the area who has cameras and can help me, please contact me directly. The assailant was, according to what the children tell me, in a work center on 22nd Street. They saw him leave from there,” the woman said.

The increase in the rates of delinquency and violence in Cuba have led to an increase in the number of complaints like that of this grandmother on social networks, in which citizens ask for help to identify and locate alleged thieves and robbers, who are often captured on security cameras.

Information and collaboration is often requested in exchange for rewards, a modality that also spreads in a country increasingly marked by inequality.

In September of last year, a Cuban woman asked for help on social networks to try identify an elderly man who stole his cell phone while she worked as a clerk at a kiosk on 100 and 51, in the Marianao municipality, in Havana.

"Alert, I need to locate this man. He stole my cell phone at my workplace. I'm going to give a reward to whoever finds it. It was at the kiosk on 100 and 51. My name is Lisandra Cabrera. It was an older man. You can see it there very clear. I already made the complaint. If he returns it, I will remove it," the woman said on social networks.

In June of that year, a man from Sancti Spiritus asked for help on social networks to find the criminals and recover the Suzuki motorcycle that had been stolen from the garage of his house.

In May, another Cuban who managed to record the theft of his electric motorcycle on security cameras reported that He had not received a response from the police after delivering the video of the event, which occurred 9 months earlier..

“This is the video of the theft of my motorcycle 9 months ago, and no response from the police, it is no longer worth installing security cameras. “This is the country where thieves live best,” he denounced.