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Chaos, screams, fire, pain, broken glass and death. These are the memories of Juan Armando González, a 42-year-old man who lived the nightmare of one of the most violent days in Bogotá, the day vandals attacked several CAI of the Police.
Account that joined the Suma Organization that provides its services to Sitp in August 2018. He says that he retired a year later but was later reinstated on December 4, 2019. “But after the events of vandalism, I was only able to work until September 30 of this year”He says, remembering the day the bus he was driving was hijacked by strangers who ended up murdering a woman.
That September 10, he says that at 9 o’clock at night he was heading on Route 266, as they call it, when at the height of Avenida Ciudad de Cali with Calle 139 he intended to leave passengers at a bus stop in the area.to. “From one moment to the next I observed many people demonstrating. So I went ahead and told the users that I couldn’t open the door in that place ”.
Then he started walking again. In a matter of seconds, he observed a mob taking over the bus. “I was struck by the left panoramic view. There I crouched down, I covered myself with the steering wheel and then I could only hear how they broke glass, rudeness, while the users only begged in anguish to be let down. But the vandals didn’t care and kept breaking the bus. ”
It was totally destroyed and at that moment the man is forced to open the doors. “The guys took all our belongings from us. Then they shoved me out of the cabin with their fists, regardless of the fact that I am a disabled person ”. Juan Armando was born with a limp in his legs but none of this has prevented him from working and leading a normal life.
I was struck by the left panoramic. There I crouched down, I covered myself with the steering wheel and then I could only hear how they broke windows, rudeness, while the users begged to be let down
Thus was the bus that ended up killing a woman in the town of Suba.
There is another passenger in a wheelchair. The two are pushed down through the middle door, but not before usurping each and every one of their belongings. “There was another lady, I don’t know if she came out alive or dead.”
Threatened by the vandals, this man advances to the south walking until he sees a residential complex and takes refuge there. “I told the security guard that if he let me wait there while everything happened and when everything calmed down a bit, I returned to the corner and realized that the bus was no longer where I left it.”
Then he asked a policeman and he told him that he was around the corner crashed into a wall of a house. “I go and look. It was completely vandalized and there were quite a few people in the back of the vehicle. Then I saw that an ambulance arrived, they took out a stretcher and that they took a body. Then came criminology and they were the ones who said that a woman had died. That for me was terrible ”.
But the drama is not over for this man The contract was terminated without any explanation, today he has no income. “My family and I are affected psychologically, economically and socially. Thank God this had never happened to me, so the impact was hard ”.
My family and I are affected psychologically, economically and socially. Thank God this had never happened to me, so the impact was hard
Today just ask for an appointment with the mayor of Bogotá Claudia López. “They are doing an injustice to me. I was not guilty of what happened but one more victim. It is not fair that I have lost my job ”.
Notes from the day of the bus hijacking:
She was María del Carmen Viuche, the woman run over by vandals.
María del Carmen Viuvche, the woman run over by a stolen bus.
BOGOTÁ WRITING WITH THE SUPPORT OF EDWIN SUA FROM CITY TV
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