In the company of his family, Juancho de la Espriella was the victim of a millionaire robbery

As every year, crime in December tends to increase in Colombia, as thieves and organized crime try to make the last month of the year a loot through robbery or fraud.

On the night of Thursday 3 December, the misfortune due to crime and insecurity in Colombia was taken by the musician Juancho De la Espriella, renowned accordionist who has collaborated with Vallenato artists such as Peter Manjarrés, Diomedes Díaz, Silvestre Dangond, Martín Elías and El Mono Zabaleta.

According to Juan Carlos García, manager of the musical group Juancho’s, the victim was about to arrive at a hotel located north of Barranquilla, in the company of his wives and two children:

He was coming to the hotel and they shot him, it was a distressed moment because he was with his wife and two children, he was very upset, he was arriving at the hotel parking lot, they took cell phones, personal effects, money and a briefcase. They left him without papers and without documents

Among the first public pronouncements that denounce the theft and warn the authorities about the incident, there is that of the singer-songwriter Vallenato Peter Manjarrés, with whom De la Espriella has already collaborated. The artist said about the theft through his Twitter account:

And, after filing a formal report of the theft with authorities, the accordionist revealed that the criminals who stole it took three iPhones, AirPods, a gold chain, a Louis Vuitton brand women’s wallet, a gold-dipped pencil. , some Gucci glasses and 500,000 pesos in cash, bringing the total amount of theft to 45 million pesos.

According to Juan Carlos García, before the crime, De la Espriella was worried because he had to solve many work issues and that after the theft there is little to do as he is incommunicado and undocumented.

Before the crime, the victim was in the company of his family in a shopping center located north of Barranquilla. Once they left, they traveled with their vehicle to the Crown Plaza hotel and Upon entering the plant’s parking lot, he and his family were approached by two subjects with a firearm, one of them on a motorcycle, who intimidated and threatened them continually to harm them if they didn’t hand over their belongings. ..

The newspaper El Heraldo de Barranquilla had access to the judicial report of the incident, where the entire file of the theft was recorded and how it started:

They ask Mr.Juancho de la Espriella to give them the watch, not having the object, they proceed to take the objects in sight: bags, chains and other personal items

Barranquilla media consulted with a security expert on why crime in the city may have increased.

In this regard, Janiel Melamed, director of the Barranquilla Citizen Security Observatory and research professor at the Universidad del Norte, referred to the situation of the capital of Atlántico, as the fourth city in Colombia with the largest number of cases of violence:

The situation does not weigh on the protection and sovereignty of the State, but on the protection of citizens and individuals against acts of violence, crime, danger or even public calamities, which threaten their life, physical integrity, honor and property

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