Story of a massive robbery in the north of Bogotá: thieves got on a TransMilenio and robbed nine people, including the driver

New details of a massive robbery that happened last Thursday, October 29, were known this Saturday. Once again, criminals broke into Bogotá’s Transmilenio system, on Carrera Séptima con calle 94, where six armed men stole the belongings of the driver and several passengers who were inside the bus.

The case was presented at nine o’clock on Thursday night, in one of the buses that covered route L82, north-south, along Carrera Séptima, northeast of the capital.

One of the victims of the robbery, Claudia Martínez, spoke with Semana Noticias and told him what happened: “(They took out) firearms, they beat us and took our bags, cell phones, and the gentlemen also took our wallets and suitcases”, while ensuring that he felt a “Atrocious scare” for what happened.

“They didn’t care if they had to kill a person”, asserted the victim.

The passenger who told the media that this is her usual route to go from work to home, assured that it was two subjects who made the bus stop that night, but when the doors were opened they got on in total six people. Two of them ran where the driver was and the other four stayed in the back of the vehicle.

“They forced the driver to turn off the lights on the bus, they told him not to drive, they began to beat us and take away our belongings. Two of them go to the driver, one of them with a knife and the other with a revolver, and they tell him not to turn off everything; the driver refuses and they start hitting him ”, Martínez told Semana Noticias.

Martínez affirmed that the thieves used not only physical but verbal violence against the passengers of the bus and the driver, whom They attacked on different occasions for resisting the robbery with blows and insults.

In turn, he mentioned that this was a supremely agile and fast robbery that lasted about a minute and that at the end they were waiting for the robbers on the other side of the road a motorcycle and a taxi to make the escape.

For her part, the passenger questioned the response of the authorities, because at no time did a patrol approach to attend to the emergency. “One is shocked and frightened and seeing from work one is not sure to go or arrive, it is a risk, one does not know if he will see loved ones again”, indicated in the interview to Semana Noticias.

The victim mentioned that the morning after the robbery he began to make the corresponding complaints with the Police and called on Mayor Claudia López about the importance of taking measures and being aware that each time this type of case is more common in the capital.

Added to the wave of insecurity was the statement of the official in charge of ensuring the tranquility of the citizens. “I stopped watching the morning news because you get up and see 4, 5, 6, 7 cases that happened the night before with night owls or night patrols and then you really feel afraid to go out to the city”said Security Secretary Hugo Acero in an interview with the NTN 24 program “La Noche”, comments that did not go down well with citizens, who expressed this on social networks.

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