Police violently arrest a young man with a box in Havana

The police violently detained a young man who was walking with a box on a street in Havana.

The event occurred on January 2 and was captured in a video that was published on Twitter by user Javi and El Koso.

"In 2023, the repression has started in style," he said.

According to the author of the tweet, since the boy was carrying a box, the agent apparently thought he was selling bread.

"The 5th best police in the world only know how to repress," he stressed.

The recording shows an agent grabbing the young man from behind by the neck and cornering him against a wall, while several people protest around him.

"Hey, don't hit him! They kill him, they kill him!" a woman can be heard shouting.

Finally, they took the boy away in a patrol car that was at the scene.

In mid-November last year, a Cuban denounced the Havana police for physically attacking him and fined him four thousand pesos after buying six loaves of bread on the street.

The incident occurred when the police officers who were aboard patrol car 523 detained Jesús Pérez González, 62, and his son; They beat him and fined him four thousand pesos each.

"They abused me at the 10th Street station, Altahabana. They hit me, threw me to the floor and fined me four thousand pesos for six loaves," he said.

They confiscated 3,710 pesos from her son, which were to buy a piece of meat and celebrate his mother's birthday.

In October, two people Blind people from Las Tunas suffered police abuse against them for marketing products.

Divany Peña reported on his social networks that he and Aliuska Oliva Heredia were arrested and taken to a police unit for selling "illicit products" that, in Peña's words, "surely do not affect the country's economy, since they are not stolen, nor are they bought here.

They were there from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm, when they were finally attended to.

The agents seized the merchandise they sold - Kola Loca glue, razor blades and batteries, among others - without taking into account that they are "disabled people who have families and live off the little profits that these products provide." In addition to the confiscation of the merchandise, they were fined for the illegal sale.

"I denounce all the abuses that are committed daily by the police and the inspection body of this province," stressed the victim of the attack.