Car Theft Skyrockets in Argentina, Barely Up in BA
On Sunday former Argentine soccer star Fernando Cáceres was shot in the head as theives tried to steal his car while he drove through the neighborhood of Ciudadela on the western outskirts of the City of Buenos Aires.
The 40-year-old Cáceres, who played for Argentina in the 1995 World Cup, now lies comatose in a hospital, with a bullet lodged inside his brain.
Unfortunately, what happened to Cáceres wasn’t an entirely isolated incident.
Car theft (including violent car jacking) has soared in Argentina so far this year. And it’s risen dramatically in the area where Cáceres was shot, as well as in other parts of the country.
Nationwide, car theft rose almost 21% in the first nine months of 2009, according to CESVI, a car and road safety organization. But the data vary dramatically depending on location.
Car theft rose only 2.4% in the capital City of Buenos Aires.
But it skyrocketed by 140% in the neighborhood of Ezeiza and by 197% in General Rodriguez and 136% in Lujan.
In the City of Buenos Aires, the worst areas were Flores, where theft rose 12.8%, and Retiro, where it jumped 12.5%.
In the country’s interior, car theft harshly affected Neuquen province (+67%), Mendoza (+66%), Santa Fe (+53%) and Cordoba (29%).
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This girlfriend of Frenando looks suspicious to me.
She remains cold with barely no emotions while talking about him or what really happened.
The other guy the one who states that two minors stole his remisero and those two are the ones who killed the young man…..
Now the twho minors say that they are not the ones doing the robbery and the killing .They where in some other place dancing….??
Now what we got here?
The words of the girlfriend and the word of the remisero…..
Who is lying here?
I think that police should also start investiganting this von of something funny name of her, and her whole life…
and the guy who states the secuence about the two minors, who probably are no saints and with poilice records….
I believe that Fernando was set up by the girfriend….why she called her ex- before even thinking to call 911-
Because something went wrong. And she called her boss, or her ex—-she is not clean enough here to me. She, the remisero and the minors are all implicated.
sherlock holmes
The bigger question is when is the society going to finally confront the fact that teenage criminals should not be granted blanket impunity based solely on their age.
Thankfully I have not been a victim of a car jacking, but I know people who have been. I have also had every single car that I have owned broken into. This last one right in front of my shop in broad daylight.
This really sucks!
It is a tragedy what is happening (the deaths, my stolen car radio is nothing compared to that).