Thief stole this saturday St. Charbel’s Church and Santo Tomás de Villanueva, located in the municipality of Playa, Miramar neighborhood, according to reports on social networks.
The robbers, who had entered through a window, “left the temple no speaker, lamp, fan And as if that wasn’t enough, he also took the Paschal candle,” he said on his Facebook wall. Adrian Martinez Cadiz press correspondent of the Catholic Agency and ewtn,
Recounting the facts, Martinez said the thieves used a ladder to climb the lighting system and remove the lamp Without cutting the wire
At the scene, the criminals left several tools they used to use the door and personal items such as masks, along with fingerprints, evidence of which was taken by the police.
“This temple is located at central 5th Avenue corner 17 in the municipality of Playa, a highly protected area With several government rooms. However, it was not intimidating to thieves,” he said in the post.
His publication was accompanied by photographs of the interior of the church, without light bulbs and lamps, and of the exterior with surveillance cameras.
Young concluded, “Expectations are not very high among the parishioners as they classify the work of the police as inefficient and highlight the degeneration of the officers due to the rising wave of robbery and crime.”
The incident happened amid reports on social networks of various robberies and vandalism in Cuban churches, which are happening more and more frequently.
“Very unfortunate, this site has been recently restored And recovered from oblivion with immense effort. It should not be spared, those of us who work there feel outraged by such a barbaric act, which should not be spared as it will set a serious precedent,” said one internet user who represents the church community. is a member.
One of the commentators thought that he had come to see a candle for sale on the social network.
Recently, a man tried to break in The “San Juan María Vianney” Priestly House is located in Vedado, Havana and houses the Catholic Church.
The person was surprised by the custodian of the residence just as he was trying to enter the place, and luckily he was unable to carry out his robbery attempt and left the place.
Another Catholic Temple It was disbanded in early April in Havana.
It is the Church of Jesús Obrero, located in Vedado, in the Plaza de la Revolucion Municipality, where the criminals broke a door to enter the premises and moved some objects, although they did not take anything and only broke some cables. He connected a projector and a laptop.
A month ago, Cuban Catholic priest Lester Rafael Zayes Diaz denounced that some thieves stole money In the piggy bank of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Havana neighborhood of Vedado.
