“I do not want to stigmatize Venezuelans, but there are some who are seriously making our lives like squares”: Mayor López

“I don’t want to stigmatize Venezuelans, but there are some who are seriously making our lives out of hand. Whoever comes to work is welcome here, but whoever comes to commit a crime should be deported immediately “, were the words of Mayor Claudia López during a local security council in Kennedy, held on the night of this Thursday, October 29.

These statements are known after the murder, in the morning hours of this Thursday, of Oswaldo Muñoz Palacios, in a Transmilenio article

The identity of the people who committed the crime is not yet known, but the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, He referred to the insecurity of the city and the role that some Venezuelans would be playing in this matter.

“I know that a headache for all is the security issue, we recognized it. Both in Kennedy and in Bogotá we have a serious problem, and today in particular we have great pain because of what happened ”, referring to the unfortunate event.

‘Alert for insecurity in the streets of Bogotá’

The murder of a man on a Transmilenio bus, this Thursday, in broad daylight, is one more example of the harsh reality that Bogotá faces these days in terms of insecurity.

Nilson Martínez, nephew of the victim, in an interview for Caracol Radio, assured that his uncle was stabbed in the leg, piercing an important vein, for which he bled out.

“We do not understand how he dies in a Transmilenio where there are people, where there are people, how it is possible that no one helped him”, stated the family member.

Likewise, hours before Muñoz’s murder, a violent attack had been reported against a man from 28 years.

Arnold andrey toro, was shot in the face during an attempted robbery while entering his home in the company of a friend, in the south of Bogotá.

The victim, who has compromised the mobility of his body, told Noticias Caracol that the bullet was lodged in his cervical region, between the spine and the skull.

“The doctors say they cannot remove the bullet because it is lodged in the cervical and if they remove it, I can become a quadriplegic”Toro explained.

The victim reported that, throughout the time, he was conscious, and that he remembers the moment when his family arrived to help him and later the paramedics who took him to a hospital.

Also in order to steal your cell phone, last October 26, another criminal gang murdered a man in the town of Suba.

This time, the event was recorded on video and it is observed how three criminals stab and kick him until his life ends.

In the video you can see how the man, identified as Jose Perdomo, tries to oppose the robbery and struggles with the robbers, and that’s when one of the criminals stabs him in the chest.

The same thieves would have been responsible for another robbery in that area of ​​the country’s capital.

A 23-year-old boy, identified as “Andrew “, reported that the gang that robbed and stabbed him five times is the same gang that killed Perdomo. The victim stated that the criminals would be Venezuelan nationality and they would have that area of ​​the north of the city whipped.

The victim was intercepted by the three criminals after getting out of a taxi in which he arrived home with two friends. Also, he pointed out that the thieves would be of Venezuelan nationality.

Likewise, the past October 16, Another video went viral, in this case, published by the same criminals.

It is a gang of hitmen who upload their crimes to social networks to intimidate their enemies and citizens, and would be involved in violent fights for territorial control of micro-trafficking in the neighborhood El Amparo, from the town of Kennedy, west of the capital.

According to the Bogotá Security Secretariat, in September 2020, there were 4,070 complaints of cell phone theft.

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