Due to the concentration, there are a large number of drug addicts who use chemical substances. Residents recorded the robbery live and called the police, but they did not show up until more than an hour later.
Completely maddened by the desire to get something valuable in exchange for more drugs, drug addicts gathered in front of a store that sells accessories and repairs cell phones and laptops and began trying to break down the metal door using pieces of wood and iron bars. The loud noise on the street, quiet because it was already night and all businesses were closed, alerted residents of neighboring houses, who notified the owner of the establishment, who, in turn, called the police.
The vehicle containing the agents arrived quickly, but was met with rocks by drug addicts and left the scene in reverse. After the police fled, the robbers managed to break down the store door, took cell phones, accessories, laptops and everything else that could be quickly sold or exchanged for drugs left by customers for repairs, and left the establishment without disturbing them.
It was only about an hour and twenty minutes later that the police showed up again, this time with more vehicles and officers, but only to record the robbery, since by then the thieves had long fled. This was the second time the same store was robbed because the products it sells are easily sold in the illicit market operating in the region, which is home to a large group of people in advanced stages of chemical dependency, numbering on some days in excess of 1,500 people. , live roaming the streets of Santa Ifigenia, using drugs, robbing businesses and passersby to buy more drugs.
Last April, another electronics store in the region was already looted, and a few weeks later it was the turn of a grocery store and a large pharmacy on Avenida Sant Joan in the same area. The concentration of drug addicts in this part of the old center of the largest city of São Paulo, which once attracted five thousand people every day, has been going on for many years, and successive state and municipal governments have done nothing except send baton-wielding police and bombs against the crowds drug addicts who flee to neighboring streets and return there as soon as the agents leave.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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