Stacks! These are the 10 favorite TransMilenio stations of thieves

The people of Bogota have still not come out of their outrage with the murder of Oswaldo Muñoz, a worker who was stabbed inside a Transmilenio bus by a group of men who tried to steal his belongings.

This assassination revealed the problem of insecurity in the transportation system of Bogotá and, in general, the entire city. According to figures from the District during 2019 there were more than 22,000 robberies in the stations or buses of this transport system, representing an increase of almost 7,000 compared to the 2018 figures.

This constant anxiety makes the citizens of the capital want to know which are the Transmilenio stations where there are more thefts. According to the Statistical, Criminal Misconduct and Operational Information System of the Police and the Bogotá Security Secretariat, these stops of the mass transport system are where there is the greatest risk of suffering a robbery:

According to the data collected, 200 or more robberies were generated in the first 10 stations on the list. In the group of the first ten, seven correspond to the center and south of the country’s capital.

The case of The case of Oswaldo Muñoz

On October 29, the capital was shaken by the murder of Oswaldo Muñoz, at the TransMilenio station on Calle 85 in Bogotá.

TransMilenio SA spoke on the matter and expressed its rejection of these acts of intolerance. In addition, he reported that the authorities have already offered a reward of 20 million pesos for those who provide information with the person responsible for the incident.

Faced with the event, the capital’s security secretary, Hugo Acero, in statements to the media, said that the murder had been perpetrated by three men, who, according to the authorities, would have left walking as if nothing had happened.

It is a regrettable fact inside an article in the 85 station, the person dies inside the article, at this moment we are working with the security cameras, looking at the recordings of the station and the cameras inside the TransMilenio bus, we are working specifically to find the people who committed this crime and we are also going to offer a reward, it will be the Sijín and the CTI of the prosecutor’s office who will access the videos, “said Secretary Acero.

The authorities reported that the contact lines for those who have information about this man are: 3057661899 – 3057683606 and line 123. The email [email protected] is also available. The Police assured that they guarantee absolute confidentiality.

Since this Thursday, the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá reported that a specialized group of the Police Department took over the investigation into the passenger’s crime. The authorities are looking for the man in the spoken portrait and three other suspects, who would be part of a gang of criminals dedicated to theft in the means of transport.

Another attempted robbery

A mother said on October 30 that, along with her 13-year-old daughter, they were cornered inside an article by criminals who stabbed them several times. According to the woman’s account, she was stabbed in the chest and her daughter in the right hand. “We are miraculously alive, but before I died I wanted the thieves to be caught”, the woman told the middle.

The woman assured that the thieves could not take the belongings and could escape. Seeing that there were no authorities at the time of the robbery, he called for the Police to do more control inside the stations.

Mother and daughter denounce that they were attacked with a knife inside Transmilenio