They denounce a new wave of theft of "abrevalijas" at the airport of Ezeiza

Several pbadengers from at least two flights that landed in the morning of today, Tuesday, at Ezeiza Airport. They reported theft and damage to their suitcases. The main suspicions concern the operators of the companies responsible for transferring luggage inside the same airport.

At least five pbadengers on two flights from different companies and cities of different origins claimed to have stolen technological objects and suffered cuts and damage in the luggage with which they had traveled..
The victims were part of United Airlines flight 819, from Houston, and 7867 from Latam, arrived in Buenos Aires from the Brazilian city of San Pablo.

The peculiarity of these cases is that both flights have landed at Ezeiza Airport within 30 minutes. Therefore, it is estimated that during this period, the same employees of the companies in charge of baggage management worked.

Raquel Arrastía, 58, and her husband have returned today to Buenos Aires after two weeks of vacation in Mexico. For the return, the two made a stopover of more than two hours in the city of Houston then took the plane to return to Argentina.

"We are traveling with four suitcases shipped to the warehouse," said Arrastía Infobae. "When we pick them up on cbadette number eight, we see a first batch of suitcases, they were not there, after a while a new batch appears and we see what 's going on. they did with our suitcases ".

The wedding had not covered their suitcases with the famous green seal. One of them had destroyed the area of ​​the closures to which is attached a padlock. When they open it, they realize that they have scrambled everything, open boxes of objects, and that they are missing a cell phone.

"We bought two Samsung Galaxy S10 phones, both boxes were open, one of my phones was in my pocket. For this reason, they took the last mobile phone and the chargers of both phones "Raquel explained to Infobae.

In addition, they found a second suitcase with the case broken and all open. However, this second suitcase contained a notice from the airport security police (PSA) in which it was reported that the suitcase had been opened for inspection. He did not miss this suitcase.

The couple decided to file a complaint only in the airline. "Can not check if my phone was stolen here, It seemed unnecessary to complain to the police."said Arrastía.

The couple said that a woman who was traveling on the same plane was complaining about the theft of medicine boxes she had in a suitcase and needed it urgently.

Once at their home in Tortuguitas, they noticed that a third suitcase had been broken during the violent break-up of one of the closures. They had not yet checked if they had stolen other items because they only wore clothes there.

Mariana Genolet, 34, was traveling on the same United flight as the affected couple. She I had traveled to Mexico for work, to make audiovisual production commitments.

When he received his suitcase in the ribbon of Ezeiza airport, he saw that one of the locks containing it had been torn apart. Desperate He checked the inside of the suitcase and noticed that the hard drive was missing, where he stored all the material recorded in Mexico.

"The airline accepted my request but did not take care of anything, and they blamed the US government, they said they had checked the baggage and they had" forgotten "to put the corresponding notification to the bag, "he said Infobae.

In North America, they generally open suitcases to examine their contents. However, whenever this happens, a written notice is left there.

Unlike marriage, Genolet has filed a complaint with PSA members at Ezeiza Airport. The case was described as "unlawful investigation" and was left in the hands of the Federal Court of First Instance No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora, responsible for Dr. Pablo Auge.

Sol Bustos, 25, did not take the United flight, but arrived in Buenos Aires by road 7856, coming from Latam, from the Brazilian city of São Paulo. She had gone on vacation to Miami and returned home after a 12-hour stopover in the city of the neighboring country. That same flight landed at 10:30, half an hour after United's.

"I had put the green film and everything. But when I saw the bag, it was no longer the seal and the broken locks"he said to Infobae. Bustos did not carry any valuables in the suitcase. There were only clothes, shoes, make-up products and some perfumes.

At first glance, the victim saw that she had all the inside of the suitcase upset, "as if she was looking for something specific." Like Raquel Arrastía, she only complained to representatives of the airline that moved her. The young He was robbed of a Roku brand electronic device, used to "convert" a TV into a smart TV.

In this way, the PSA does not have enough personnel to locate a control representative when moving the bags of each flight. In addition, in recent years the number of companies, flights and destinations has increased but the number of controllers has remained intact. For that, it was resolved to dedicate specific staff to the so-called "hot flights". These are mainly trips from Europe.

Thus, the cases of today and the lack of sufficient control staff have demonstrated a rebirth of the nightmare of "abrevalijas" in Ezeiza. "With the flight revolution, many trips have been added, but the people who control the baggage are the same. The court will now ask the airport security cameras to be able to check whether an illegal act has been committed inside the airport.. Little by little, new security cameras are set up to try to control the situation, "said a source close to Ezeiza Airport. Infobae.