An alleged thief barricaded himself on the roof of a building in Havana after being caught stealing in an apartment and finding himself surrounded by the police.
The young man (described as a "boy" by witnesses at the scene) reportedly threatened to jump into the void rather than surrender to the authorities, preferring suicide to prison.
A video shared by the influencer Alain Paparazzi Cubano showed the police and fire department presence surrounding the building, as neighbors and onlookers observed the dramatic scene.
The young man did not appear in the recording, who supposedly had already taken refuge on the rooftop and had voiced his threats to jump into the void from a height of seven stories.
The building, located at the corner of Bernaza and O’Reilly streets, opposite the Francisco de Albear y Lara Park and the Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski, in Old Havana, is a construction in modernist style, with high-ceilinged apartments, so the total height of the building could exceed 20 meters.
"Give yourself up and jaba!" shouted one of the onlookers who remained on the street watching the events unfold. With his expression, he indicated to the young man that it was better to surrender to the police and accept the prison sentence (hence the "jaba," the name given to the bag of food that inmates in Cuba receive from their families).
The increase in thefts and crime in Cuba is a fact, despite the authorities insisting on denying reality and attributing social alarm to the existence of social networks.
In most cases, thieves who are caught in the act during their misdeeds receive the contempt of neighbors and captors, often escalating from insults to punches and physical violence, amid the passivity of the police and authorities.
In mid-September, residents of the Cerro municipality in Havana captured an alleged thief on Mariano Street, between Nueva and Pedro Pérez, and handed him over to the police.
Independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada received statements from some witnesses, indicating that the individual was caught in the act and the residents of the area managed to detain him before he could escape.
The incident generated a lot of excitement in the neighborhood, but the situation remained under control until, approximately an hour later, a police patrol arrived and proceeded to arrest the alleged thief.
Days earlier, an alleged thief was captured by neighbors of the Indaya neighborhood in the municipality of Marianao, in Havana, and was kept under guard until the police arrived.
A video shared by the independent media outlet Cubanet showed the moment when the individual was cornered by several neighbors, after allegedly having robbed one of the houses in the settlement.
Witnesses of the events indicated that the police took time to arrive, during which the neighbors, peacefully, moved the alleged thief from where he was caught to one of the entrances to the settlement.
At the beginning of September, residents of the Sevillano neighborhood in Diez de Octubre, Havana, caught a thief who broke into several houses in the area in broad daylight, according to a citizen complaint.
The individual was captured by local residents, who decided to take matters into their own hands, and they punched him in the face after discovering him, judging by the photos from a Facebook post.
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