Ramón Acuña, un taxista argentino que sobrevive conduciendo su vehículo, fue víctima de un violento asalto mientras trabajaba. Dos hombres abordaron su taxi y tras una conversación sobre la economía y la realidad del país, terminaron amenazándolo con un cuchillo. Acuña sufrió serias lesiones en su mano durante el incidente y ahora teme volver a trabajar.
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00:00Argentina is a taxi driver, but in reality he is not a taxi driver, he is a professional.
00:07He studied a university degree, he fell out of the system, he is driving a taxi, he makes a living, he survives with the taxi.
00:15These two men that you are seeing, take the taxi, talk to him.
00:20You are going to see a video, where while the taxi driver circulates, circulates, there he is.
00:27There he is, the taxi driver Ramón.
00:31Ramón is, and there are those there, I see one half asleep, right?
00:35Ramón Acuña, he does or is asleep, they talk about the economy, about the reality of the country.
00:41And do you know what's going to happen next? Do you know what's going to happen next?
00:46They end up stabbing him in the throat.
00:51But I want to hear it directly from Ramón Acuña, who suffered serious injuries while he was working, earning bread every day.
01:01He had long since lost his job as a professional, and decides to go with the taxi.
01:11How did they leave him? Because of course, when they put the knife in his neck, the man tries to get it out,
01:20to the point that he even manages to get rid of the knife and try to defend himself from the attackers.
01:28But I want you to tell us in the first person.
01:31Ramón Acuña, a story, unfortunately, more usual than we thought.
01:38We have been observing all this violence, and this man who is working ends up like this.
01:46Ramón, how are you? Today, right? How are you today?
01:50Today I can talk.
01:52Today you can talk.
01:57Tell me, when did this happen?
02:00This happened on Friday afternoon.
02:03At 17.13, 17.15, around that time, they stopped my car and wanted to go to a tax office located in Dock Sud.
02:17The car was stopped and the passengers, until that moment you thought they were passengers, where did they board it?
02:24In Belgrano Avenue, at 600, more or less, each capital.
02:28They give you the destination, you start driving, you chat, you hear that they are talking about current situations,
02:34there is one who is half asleep, the other who gives you more talk, is the one who is covered in your little camera by the headrest, right?
02:42Exactly, it is the one that is right next to the passenger, let's say.
02:52Sure, and what makes you cross to the side of the province?
02:55Yes, supposedly they were going to the tax office that is in Dock Sud.
03:00You would have said, nice trip, it serves me, right? It is a good distance.
03:04Of course, no, no. Nowadays, surviving in the taxi is very difficult and I did not want to lose that,
03:12but I was asking them, I was asking them questions on the way, questions on the way, and there was something that did not close me.
03:19I wanted to cut it on the bridge before going up to La Boca, but there was not a single policeman.
03:27There it is, see what we have been talking about.
03:29You realized, Ramón, sorry, you realized on the way that there was something strange.
03:34Nothing, the intuition led me that I did not like it.
03:39So we go down, we go up to the bridge, once we were on the bridge, it is already played, until Dock Sud I could not go down.
03:49So we go down to Dock Sud and he tells me, I know the tax deposit because my life is linked to the insurance world for 40 years.
04:00And that account, in the insurance account of risk of work, we have managed for a long time, it is a very important tax deposit.
04:09Yes.
04:10I have gone to that tax deposit, well, handling the account and solving some problems, I always had contact with that company.
04:23Very well, let's see Ramón, let's focus on what happened after you crossed the bridge and you suspected, you sensed something.
04:32What happened next?
04:33Well, we got there and he tells me, you have to turn around here to go to the parking lot.
04:38I tell him, no, there is no tax deposit, that is not the parking lot.
04:42I turned around to the tax deposit, there was a bus stop, I stopped and said, get off here.
04:50And there it was that he already had a ... the one who was behind me, the one who was asleep, he grabbed me from behind through the headrest and with a knife in the throat.
05:05I put my hand, I do sports, I have strength in my arms, I put my hand intuitively, I separated them and that's where I grabbed the knife, we started to fight,
05:17but I took it out and started stabbing back, while the other took my cell phone, they hit me, luckily they didn't hurt me in the hit, but yes, my hand stayed like that, like the one I passed.
05:32At that time it was much worse because I had blood on my neck, all over my clothes, the car is still bleeding on the seat, on the floor.
05:47Well, one stays there ... lost.
05:53Let's see, Ramón, these people are not arrested so far, today you had a call from the police.
06:00Today, yes, a little while before you called me, the police called me, I showed them the same video that I showed you.
06:07Because there are the subjects, there you can see it.
06:09Yes, it's those two.
06:10It's these two.
06:11Yes, there are the two.
06:13Pay attention to any taxi driver and the applications, because obviously they don't want to travel, they want to rob you and they do it very violently, they put a knife in your throat.
06:24In addition to the material that Ramón can provide with this camera, let's see, the one we see in the car, we see it in mirror effect, right?
06:30Sure.
06:32No.
06:44There is a way to explain this.
06:47Your hand is a working hand.
06:49And there you have any number of points.
06:52You couldn't work at this time.
06:54And if you work as a taxi driver, if you don't go out to work, you don't take your hand home.
06:59I don't take my hand home and I'm afraid.
07:02I'm afraid to go out.
07:04How many points did they give you in the hand?
07:06And I must have ... I didn't count it well because I didn't want to count it either, but I must have 20 points out there.
07:14Now look, what synthesis.
07:16Because it's not just the big toe, it's also the index, it goes from ... it turns the whole finger, let's say.
07:25It is a semicircle full of points.
07:27Yes, I also think that the worst thing is the traumatic stress that a situation like the one Ramón had to live with a knife in his throat using his hand.
07:40I started to be afraid of your shadow, Pablo.
07:42For any attack that came from behind and so violent, Jorge.
07:45No, yes, it's very serious.
07:47I think what you told me, Ramón, what hit me the most is that you said there was not a single policeman.
07:52Because he realized ...
07:54Now I tell you what happened, because maybe this is even fixed.
07:58When we crossed the other side of the bridge, they say there was a police station.
08:02At that time there was not a single policeman.
08:04Why?
08:05Because there was a problem on a field that is close, in Dock Sud, around there.
08:11In Dock Sud, in the field where?
08:12At the dock.
08:13At the dock, well, there was a problem there with the barrack infestation.
08:18So all the policemen were there.
08:21Meanwhile, everything was released so that they would do this to me, so that they would do this to anyone who was in that area.
08:29You were handed over.
08:30These people who are ...
08:31I was handed over.
08:32Of course, exactly, Ramón, you handed over your life.
08:35You notice that these people who are so violent, so aggressive, who are scoundrels,
08:39then there are people who worry about how they spend it in jail.
08:43But I want them grilled.
08:44But when the patrolman came to attend to me, they told me,
08:48the prosecutors here say, give him a sandwich, let him go, in total they are minors.
08:56But the prosecutors are not so much the police, they are the prosecutors.
09:01He was playing racing barracks, our colleague tells us.
09:04Ramón, I want to clarify this for the people who are watching us.
09:08The prosecutor has to respect a law that says that minors cannot ...
09:12You have to lower the age of imputability.
09:14The legislator, instead of dealing with other issues, has to dedicate himself to this,
09:17lower the age of imputability and return to ...
09:19Look, I exaggerate a little, return to the military educational service.
09:24Ramón, thank you very much for your testimony.
09:26Let's hope they find them, that they stop them,
09:29that all the weight of the law falls on these people who could have killed you.
09:34That they continue to hurt us.