M. walked quickly, eager to get home to see her five-month-old son. As she approached the building, she looked in her purse for the keys without realizing that a man who had passed by him had retraced his steps. She tried to close the door, but the armed stranger entered the building with her and forced her to go up to her apartment, starting a nightmare in Argentina.
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Once in the apartment, the criminal demanded dollars and threatened to kidnap the baby. He tied the woman, her partner and her mother-in-law with seals. However, due to carelessness, they managed to hit and subdue the aggressor until the police arrived.
Despite having survived the incident, they now fear that the man, once freed, will return seeking revenge.
The event took place in Blanco Encalada at 3300, in the Belgrano neighborhood, at 9:26 p.m. last Friday. The initial sequence of the attack was recorded by a security camera near the building, capturing the moment when M. She tried to close the door, while the criminal intimidated her by demanding the money.
M. recalled that it seemed to him that the thief did not know the building. Since the building did not have an elevator, they climbed the three floors by stairs, while the criminal constantly threatened her with a weapon.
Upon arriving at the apartment, the first thing M. said when opening the door was “excuse me,” since inside were his partner, 42, his mother-in-law, 67, and the baby.
“He forced us to lie on the floor. At one point he even pointed the gun at the baby,” said M. The thief insistently repeated “I want the money, I want the dollars,” while the victims tried to explain to him that they had no money. They offered him computers, phones and other valuables, but the criminal only wanted dollars.
M. and his family feared the worst, since not having dollars, they believed that the thief would kill them. The criminal threatened them saying: “I’m taking the baby and kidnapping him.” After tying everyone up with seals, the thief took M.’s mother-in-law and boyfriend to the bathroom, while the baby remained in the crib.
He took M. to the bedroom and told her: “Give me the dollars or I will rape you,” before returning to the bathroom.
At that moment, M.’s boyfriend, realizing that the seals were incorrectly installed, decided to act. Taking advantage of the fact that the thief turned his back on him, he hit him with a blow that took him by surprise.
“My partner, when he saw the opportunity, thought ‘it’s now or never’ and hit him. Then we all started hitting him,” said M. While they were trying to subdue the thief, She kicked him in the hand where he had the gun.using the strength that both, as Crossfit practitioners, managed to extract at the moment.
The gun went off at one point during the struggle, but M. managed to grab it and throw it away. She ran with her baby while shouting, “Help, help. There’s a thief!” Shortly after, some neighbors came and helped subdue the criminal until the police from Neighborhood Police Station 13C arrived.
When the uniformed officers arrived at the scene, they found the criminal already reduced, as confirmed by police sources. The thief was arrested and remained at the disposal of the criminal judge. and Osvaldo Rappa correctional facility in Buenos Aires.
“I thought he was going to kill us. But at that moment you draw strength from where you can. The thief at one point shouted ‘don’t hit me anymore, don’t hit me anymore,'” recalled M. The victim also mentioned that the police personnel He informed him that the weapon used by the criminal was a compressed air pistol.
M., whose identity is being kept confidential at the request of the victim, commented that after the terrifying event he learned of other robberies in the neighborhood.
“We would like to have police custody because we don’t know if, Once he regains his freedom, the thief wants to return for revenge.“said the Belgrano neighbor. M. hopes that in the next few hours the court will call her to take a testimonial statement.
Gabriel Di Nicola
THE ARGENTINE NATION / GDA.
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*This content was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence, based on information from La Nación Argentina (GDA). It was reviewed by a journalist and an editor.
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