Last Sunday’s assault on a chalet in the Brillante Norte neighborhood at 7:30 p.m. revealed the speed with which these “specialists” whose objectives are marked act. “The thieves are coming armed and with harnessready to climb and jump several meters; They are specialists, they scaled two meter walls in seconds and went straight to their loot; “It’s like they have the plans of my house, they know perfectly well where to enter, what’s behind and on the sides,” said one of the victims of the robbery, showing ABC the images recorded that day by their security cameras.
“They were going to look for jewelry in our neighbor’s cottage; “They entered through my other neighbor’s fence, jumped over ours to get to the one they stole and left with the loot.” So, as shown by the recording of security cameras inside the property – already in the hands of the Scientific Police – this resident of El Brillante explained from inside his house how last Sunday two hooded individuals and armed despite the dog, the alarms and the security cameras, they jumped over several walls, destroying some tiles on which they were pivoting, to access their neighbors’ chalet.
This neighbor in his forties and his family live, like the rest of the residents of this neighborhood, with the fear and worry that the attack will happen again with them inside. “How do I explain to my three youngest children – from whom we hid the theft but who have already discovered at school that they can sleep peacefully? In two weeks we have suffered five thefts in the same building”, he lamented, pointing to the route of the attackers with several destructions in the backyard of his house.
The indignation of this neighbor is the same as that of the rest of the inhabitants and the problem is that there is no solution in the short term, they say. They all have dogs and an alarm system but the animals used to being with children and sights do not attack, they warn if they hear something but then calm down; The alarms go off if they are not inhibited and the cameras record, in their case, “until they receive a stone and are killed”, he denounced.
The problem is, in this neighbor’s opinion, that “the thieves are better prepared than those who have to ensure our security, that’s clear.” “The agents of Scientific Police They came to collect evidence but they couldn’t do much else… they took the images from the cameras to analyze them and that’s it,” added this owner.
One of the problems reported by these neighbors is the lack of lighting. “If there are lights, then something deters to thieves; In fact, the street lamps on the main street mean that they do not enter through the facade but rather use the rear parts of the houses which face an area of the Brillante which is not lit, the street lamps do not illuminate “, said this owner.
This is not a specific problem, the El Patriarca and Ermitas Neighborhood Association reported this Friday to Cordoba Town Hall the spots without light that exist in this northern area of the center of El Brillante, which borders the Villaviciosa highway and which is a fertile ground for criminals who also flee via an easily accessible road.
During a meeting held between representatives of the inhabitants of El Brillante – who bring together some 800 families – and the Town Hall of Córdoba, the latter undertook to undertake emergency lighting of these areas as well as the adaptation of the metal framework and the cleaning of this part of Brillante Norte, in addition to contributing with the agents of the Local Police to the prevention of thefts and delinquency in this residential area.
For his part, the Deputy government delegate In Córdoba, Ana López confirmed this week to ABC that the area was reinforced by these thefts and that this was conveyed to the neighborhood representatives of the area with whom they held a meeting.
