In one of the busiest areas of the city, bounded and crossed by different access and exit routes to the centre, the Norte neighborhood of La Plata appears, a very traditional urban agglomeration, with its typical buildings, although now adapting to the new era and with many standardized buildings in almost all its blocks.
However, this description of progress collides with a very negative factor: insecurity, which removes another key detail he knew how to create a cult for: calm.
Living today in Barrio Norte is synonymous with fear and anxiety, because the level of thefts is stifling. There is no claim that allows us to find a way out of this situation.
“They don’t pay any attention to us,” one front-line leader expressed without euphemisms when asked by this newspaper.
Nor alarms, bars, cameras and guard dogs. The crime overcomes any obstacle and we point to the evidence.
Since October 16, a horror saga has begun that has made its residents’ hair stand on end.
That day, at No. 38 pizzeria between 2 and 3 o’clock, an armed robbery occurred, which left a very great aura of fear.
Thus, every time a motorcycle noise is heard, everyone shudders.
In the same building, they dragged a girl to the ground to take her cell phone and burned a container.
On the 6th and 37th, fire planes attacked a candy store and hit a girl in the head with a rifle butt.
On 1 and 37, two-wheeler criminals also took away a man’s bag as he was leaving for work.
On 8/41/42, a house was looted in the absence of its owner.
On the 40th, between 4 and 5 p.m., a commando coup was recorded at the union headquarters at dawn, and they escaped from it with two safes, one of which weighed 80 kilograms.
The night before last, at 6 between 35 and 36, they robbed a retired couple, and yesterday at 6 between 36 and 37, it was the supermarket’s turn.
An assault on a family at 33 between the ages of 12 and 13 deserves a separate paragraph. It happened last November 24, with a degree of violence rarely seen.
There were three criminals who took possession of their property, at about 8.40 p.m., at the time when the locations were distributed: the owner was on the ground floor with one of his sons, while the couple and their daughter remained upstairs.
The episode started when they were waiting for two supposed buyers of the white iPhone 15 Pro to arrive. In this context, while the owner of the house was in the kitchen, he heard a strange sound that alerted him. As he headed toward the lobby, he encountered an armed person wearing a blue inflatable vest, light jeans, black sneakers, and a black hat with white writing on it. The intruder pointed directly at him and threatened him with the words: “Get down on the ground, old man, because I will burn you.”
Then the punches and kicks started. The man and his son ended up in the Spanish hospital with head injuries, and the young man also suffered a fracture in his upper jaw.
Thus, in addition to the cell phone, a MacBook Air Pro was stolen.