A man who was almost lynched by neighbors of Santiago de Cuba that he was mistaken for a thief, offered his version of the events through social networks, declaring himself innocent and attributing what happened to a misunderstanding.
“I am a worker, it was a misunderstanding,” he said. Ramón Moya Ramírez, who was the target of popular anger for an incident that the crowd interpreted as a robbery, and for which the neighbors captured him, tied him to a post and he was the victim of violent treatment.
Moya Ramírez was passing through Bervedere Street when, according to his version, he found money lying on the street. Seeing no one around him, the man picked it up, but just at that moment another individual appeared who demanded the money and did not let him explain.
According to his story, the event caught the attention of neighbors who surrounded him and made it even more difficult for him to offer his explanations. The anger of a population tired of the increase in robberies and crime in the streets of Cuba was channeled through the event, which is why he ended up being “judged” by the crowd as a thief, and tied to a post waiting for for the police to arrive.
“Everyone got together and then the neighbors started throwing stones and so on. I really haven't gone into any house to rob anyone, I'm not a thief. But the people did not let me explain the situation. What they did was tie me up, waiting for the police to come. And it turns out that I was the victim, because they stole my phone there,” said Moya Ramírez.
In their explanations, shared through the page Facebook of the independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, the man stated that he is a plumber by profession and that he made a living from his work, not robbing anyone.
“Many people wrote to me telling me about their experiences and praising the man who they described as ‘a good man and from a good family,’” Mayeta Labrada said in her publication.
According to Moya Ramírez, videos circulated on the networks of the moment in which he was captured and tied to a post, but not of what happened later, when finally the neighbors themselves decided to release him after listening to him and realizing the mistake.
“I am not a thief, I am a working person. I'm a plumber. And I have not been in charge of robbing anyone. "I dedicate myself to work," the man stressed, visibly saddened by the misunderstanding that projected a wrong image of him on social networks.
Despite the efforts of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) for washing his image, this progressively deteriorates with the increase in crime, violence and impunity in Cuba.
The perception of the population does not correspond to the image that the regime tries to project about its repressive forces. Hence, the scenes of excited mobs of neighbors who catch in fraganti to thieves, to those who tie and sometimes they hit.
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