"Do not do it," a police officer's plea against a 15-year-old thief who threatens to commit suicide – 11/28/2018

Accused, surrounded by police officers who watch him closely, the thief does not know what to do. He is lost. She is 15 years old and wearing a 9 mm with which he has just shown a shop and stole less than a thousand pesos.

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The scene takes place in the heart of Mar del Plata. "Release the weapon, release it," shout several policemen at the same time. The boy hesitates, seems to surrender and no, the tension reaches the limit, it screws the weapon and rests on the head.

"No, do not do it!"begs the voice of a woman who stands out: "I have a brother of your age," she says, and as soon as she catches the attention of the badailant, she asks the rest of her companions to let her take charge, and convinces him little by little.

This is Sergeant María Victoria Salinas, badigned to the Patrol Command, who He finally managed to convince the young thief. After the tumult generated by the arrival of several patrols, he crossed Catamarca Street, almost Luro Avenue, in the center and two blocks from the first police station, as well as the nervous shrieks of uniformed police officers, so the boy threw the weapon to the ground. Sergeant Salinas cautiously managed to reach him.

The aggressor is 15 years old and was responsible for the UFI miners prosecutor Marcelo Yánez Urrutia. Moments earlier, he attacked a pantry in Rivadavia and on September 20, seven blocks from where he was arrested.

He took the product that he had in the box to a merchant, 960 pesos.

It arrived Monday afternoon. Police ordered stores in the area to lower the blinds. The thief, named Diego, wore a camper and a cap that did not let his eyes see. When he finally caught his attention, Sergeant Salinas begged him not to do so (the thief had just pointed at his head with the rifle ready to fire) and promised that nothing would happen to him.

He tells her about his family, his brother of the same age. He succeeds: the criminal supports the weapon on the ground and is arrested.

The boy was transferred to the juvenile detention center, located in Batan, with a "Theft aggravated by the use of a weapon". The officers seized a 9mm Browning pistol and recovered the trade proceeds he had badaulted.

Later, via Twitter, Cristian Ritondo, Buenos Aires' security minister, emphasized the sergeant's action: "María Victoria has avoided crime and avoided death," he wrote: "In the Fight against crime, we must avoid crime and more Yet the death of innocent For a policeman, life is a supreme good, but also that of the perpetrator of the crime. "