The complaint now comes from the response he recently received from the military prosecutor’s office denying him financial compensation for the damage caused, certifying that the actions of the officers did not constitute a crime, because “they acted in the exercise of their duties “.
“The officers fired three shots at close range at 15 meters to kill me to take my life”, denounces the Cuban Osiris José Puerto, shot during the popular uprising of July 11, 2021 against the Havana regime, by one of Castro’s enforcers. He says he was returning home when he was injured.
“He fired 3 shots at me, the first in the head which missed, the second hit me in the shin above the knee and when I fell to the ground the third hit me from behind.”
Osiris was self-employed in the country’s capital and, on the day of the revolt, he witnessed and, he says, victim of police brutality by the regime’s aggressors.
“When I got to Calixto García, I was out of breath, they gave me a good hand with the stick. They said: this is the other evolutionary counter-revolutionary, are you going to save him?
“I will not stop claiming the injustice that was done to me on July 11. They decided not to compensate me because the officers who fired the three shots at me were acting in their duty and c was the order they had,” he said.
For a year and 8 months, Osiris lay in bed, recovering from his injuries thanks to the medicine his father and sister sent him from the United States.
“If I hadn’t had that family there who helped me, I would have died. They would have said they had killed a delinquent, having the daughter that I have and the kid that I have”.