They murder a Cuban in Holguín to steal his tricycle

A Cuban resident in the city ofHolguin He was murdered to steal his tricycle, as reported on social networks by Luis Batista Martínez, who identified himself as the victim's brother.

"Was murdered. They stabbed him to take away his tricycle. "Let justice be done to my brother."wrote Batista Martínez in a brief message - which he later deleted - along with a photo of his brother and the vehicle that was stolen from him.

A later article by14 intervene identified the victim as Leonel Batista Pinillo and stated that the manHe drove an electric tricycle that he used to transport passengers and goods.

The aforementioned media detailed - citing the testimony of sources familiar with the case - that Leonel BatistaHe was killed with seven stab wounds in the vicinity of the Mayabe cemetery. The crime was committed near a state company dedicated to road repairs.

The victim's last clients“They were a couple who paid for a late-night tour along XX Anniversary Avenue, between Valle Highway and the entrance to the Villa Nueva neighborhood, although it is unknown if they are involved in the murder.”

The body was found by another driver who immediately notified the police.

Until the closing of this note, no other details have emerged about a crime that adds to a large number of similar cases registered in the last year: murders motivated by the theft of some type of vehicle, mainly motorcycles.

At the end of February, a young man from Santiago de Cuba, barely 23 years old and resident in the rural community of El Majagual, in the Segundo Frente municipality,He was allegedly murdered to steal his motorcycle, as the independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta revealed then on social networks.

In January it was reported the crime of a doctor residing in Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, also to steal his motorcycle.

That same month,Walter Mulgado, a 51-year-old manA resident of the town of Calabazar, in the Boyeros municipality of Havana, he was also murdered to steal his motorcycle in Havana.

At the end of October of last year, a young man was murdered in Havana forsteal his motorcycle at the exit of a hospital where his partner was about to give birth, according to family sources reported at the time.

Despite such a panorama, a senior official from the Cuban Attorney General's Office in mid-MarchHe denied that there is an increase in murders in the country and tried to divert attention to the increase in internet users on the island in recent years.

Beatriz de la Peña La O, head of the Investigation Department of the Directorate of Criminal Procedures, said on the television programWe make Cuba that criminal violence - which includes the crimes of murder, manslaughter, injuries, robbery with violence and sexual assault - has not increased.

"There are no more murders in Cuba, in numbers," she stated categorically.

The officials even shared data, graphs and images whose objective was to demonstrate that there is no increase in violence in Cuba, contrary to the multiple complaints from the population that indicate the opposite.