Pawan Srivastava He is an Indian citizen who has lived in the country for 17 years. He says he moved into the building two months ago. Cabrera’s point of view, in the neighborhood of the same name as Calle 83 on Carrera Eighth, because it was highly recommended as one of the safest areas in Bogota. It was the perfect place to take his wife and son.
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Based on good advice on the already established and industry, the family traveled abroad during Holy Week, leaving the recommended workplaces. He is the Latin American manager of a pharmaceutical company in the United States, and his wife also owns a pharmaceutical distribution company in the region. “We also have a restaurant called Tandır. We are honest, we are hardworking, we love people, but the insecurity that has taken over the city scares us. We even considered leaving.”
And while they were enjoying the trip, on April 11, their apartment was searched. They would never have imagined that two men armed with only a stick would be dexterous enough to reach their apartment window from a human ladder and get whatever they wanted. There was no security company to stop them. Of course, there was a third person, the ‘bell ringer’, watching so that no one would come near who could ruin the heist.
When the family returned to their home, they found all the drawers on the floor outside the furniture, full of clothes as if a hurricane had passed. The underworld had scrutinized every corner of the house.
In security videos reviewed after the discovery, the two men are seen walking through the sector for 45 minutes, staring side-by-side as if they were stalking their prey. “There are only 22 flats and 17 security cameras in my building, the whole place is lit, and the building in the area where my flat was located was not working that day.”
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The thieves broke a window and had one hour and twenty minutes to break into the safe and take laptops, stereos, games, clothes, as well as watches, jewelry and money, among other valuables.
As if that wasn’t enough, with the same human ladder method, the criminals lowered the three suitcases and escaped through the same window they had entered. They then fled in a vehicle. The events were recorded on security cameras. “Everything was done very calmly. I am wondering. How am I paying for a security system if two men can get up and down like spiders and loot one person’s entire property? That’s very suspicious.”
Also, apparently the thieves realized they forgot something and went back to the apartment and likewise got what they needed. “A theft that adds up to about 600 million pesos. They were our hard-earned possessions. It’s very suspicious to us that a criminal turns up like this, they’re usually afraid of getting caught.
The saddest thing for the victim family is that neither the venue management nor the security company responded to them about what was going on. “A neighbor of ours said that the same flat in this building suffered a similar theft ten years ago, and the landlords have not responded. If there was already that ground, why didn’t they take action?
The management said Pawan Srivastava told them he was only responsible for people coming and going from the main access and the security company was delaying the investigation process.
The family now lives in fear in their own home. “We demand that the Atlanta security company definitively end the investigation and respond to us for any failures. After all this, my wife and son were very impressed.”
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This method, in which a few skilled men make a kind of ‘human ladder’ in their movements, has already been used in other robberies in Bogotá. In July 2021, a robbery was reported on Carrera 20 and Calle 118 in the northern town of Usaquén.
A female security guard was distracted while several people were making a human ladder to enter the building, according to Bogota Police sources at the time.
After the criminals managed to break into their target, they broke into the three apartments to steal their valuables and achieve their goal in a very short time. Dollars, Colombian pesos and euros from where they stole, as well as jewelry and gadgets that are easy to remove without being detected.
Andrés Nieto, a security expert and former undersecretary of security at Central University, has explained several times that the reactivation of committed criminals is determined by four mechanisms.
“The first mechanism is deception; they act as hosts, for covid-19 they act as workers from health groups, public officials or representatives of public services, and they let people in without violence. Once inside, they remove the elements, with scopolamine or the threat,” he said.
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Others, according to the expert, are devoted to monitoring the house with field logs to verify the vulnerability of the house, when left alone, video surveillance if there are minors who can be deceived. Another modality is known as the master key, and finally, when violence is applied at the time of entry. The human ladder strategy is well known in popular industries for the ease with which criminals circumvent weak homeland security in those industries; so it’s surprising that it’s in neighborhoods where more technology needs to be and where security companies operate. , this modality is successful.
According to data recorded by the Security Secretariat, between January and April 2022, 1,808 cases of home theft were recorded in the city of Bogota, compared to 2,413 that occurred in the same period last year. Of these, 75 and 83 occurred in the town of Chapinero, respectively. This year, the highest rates of house theft crime by residential area were in Suba with 232 cases, Engativá with 208, Kennedy with 194 and Usaquén with 162, but overall it is a crime that occurs in the whole city.
carol malaver
BOGOTA ASSISTANT EDITOR
Source: Exame
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