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Brutal, there is no other word to describe the attack he was a victim of a young university student of only 21 years old on Monday, November 2 at 7:15 pm.
In an interview with EL TIEMPO, this economics student from Universidad América and portfolio assistant in a company said that He always uses his bicycle to move around the city and that, that day, he decided to use the bike path on 26th Street so as not to invade the car lane.
When he entered a tunnel in that corridor, which many have classified as that of ‘death’, because it is always without lighting, he felt that something stopped his bicycle. “It was an unknown man who fell. But then I felt like a second guy hit me from behind. ”
Within seconds two men were attacking him mercilessly with machetes. “They got me off the bike. They beat me many times. One of the thieves took my bike and escaped on it while the other stayed there to see if he could get me something else like my cell phone or money ”.
But the young man was so terrified that he could only scream and ask for someone to please help him. “I don’t know, I couldn’t react, I didn’t give him anything, so I think the guy got scared and ran away.”
This was the bicycle that was stolen from the young economics student.
As he could, the young man left walking towards the road because he saw himself bleeding from the chest. “I took off the coat and put it on the wound. I was very scared. I just said: help, they just robbed me ”. He tried to scream to ask to be taken to a doctor but no one helped him and he did not want to die. People were afraid to speak to him. The cars didn’t stop either.
Already weakened by the loss of blood, this young man sat on a platform until a police patrol passed. It was the uniformed men who took him to the Colombia clinic.
They call this tunnel on 26th Street as that of ‘death’. It is not the first time that citizens have been robbed there.
The doctors were terrified of the severity of the attack. The young man arrived with multiple machete wounds to his right arm, one to the head and a very serious one to the thorax. “That managed to puncture a lung. They took an X-ray and then they had to intubate me and drain my blood. Then they were able to suture the other wounds ”.
The young man left the hospital only until Friday, November 6 in the afternoon. The images of the robbery still keep him in suspense. He remembers a man his height, 1.70, with a cap. “The two guys had caps and the only one who spoke to me did have a Venezuelan accent.”
While in recovery, the police arrived at the clinic and helped him with the process to file the complaint and wrote down all the information about the bicycle. “These days I have advanced in my recovery, I am taking various medications and doing therapies. I want to be well again, but this is not easy, “he told EL TIEMPO.
A wound hit me to puncture a lung. They took an X-ray and then they had to intubate me and drain my blood. Then they could suture the other wounds
He says that the robbery prevented him from advancing in many things at the university and in his work but he is grateful to be alive because the attack was so violent that he could have died. EL TIEMPO refrains from publishing the images, they are shocking.
This economics student struggles to recover physically but does not say the same when he talks about the emotional problems he has had in the wake of the attack. “I think it is time for the authorities to get on with it. In that place they have robbed many more people, only now they use machetes and shoot to kill. The attack was too violent, why is this happening?
It also affected him a lot that he was not helped by people even though he was bleeding. “I know that it is difficult to help a stranger but it is that almost nobody stopped me. We have to do collective consciousness. We are all living here and we should make Bogotá a better place ”.
CAROL MALAVER
DRAFTING BOGOTÁ
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