A German tourist is robbed in Cartagena: he left his suitcases in a taxi and a moto-taxi driver, who was going to help him, robbed him and tied him to a half-naked tree

Jürgen Roland Franz arrived in Cartagena on February 8. Around 6:00 p.m. he landed at Rafael Núñez International Airport, after a long trip from his native Germany, and what started out as a good vacation did not end well: without suitcases and half naked, the 70 -year-old- former German citizen He had, perhaps, one of the worst experiences of his life. The prosecutor’s office is investigating the case.

Franz told the attorney general’s office on February 13, when he filed a theft complaint, that he took a taxi from Rafael Núñez airport to take him to the Getsemaní neighborhood, where he was staying. As soon as he arrived, the drama began for Franz: “the taxi took my suitcases”, he declared to the prosecution. In the suitcase, Franz carried his passport, credit card, documents, money and a notebook with contact notes.

The man, worried about his belongings, quickly took a motorcycle taxi to Getsemani. His idea was to return to the airport, locate the taxi driver or, at least, obtain his contact details to contact him and collect his luggage. Sin embargo, Franz no contaba con que el mototaxista tenía otros planes para él y en vez de llevarlo hasta el aeropuerto Rafael Núñez, se lo llevó cerca al sector de la Pie de La Popa, en donde lo golpeó y le quitó las pocas cosas que llevaba on:

“In the neighborhood of Getsemaní, I took a moto-taxi to return to the airport and locate the taxi driver, but the moto-taxi took me to a neighborhood on the sides of Pie de La Popa, m physically assaulted me, hit me hard from behind, leaving me bruised all over, he even indicated that the assailant “took a stone to hit me on the head”.

According to the complaint that the German citizen filed with the public prosecutor’s office, the motorcycle taxi driver, in addition to beating him, stole two cell phones, his shoes and 4,000 euros, which at today’s exchange rate, on February 18, amount to approximately 21 million pesos. . But not content with that, he left him half-naked and tied to a tree. He was like that for almost two hours, according to the account he gave to the authorities.

Regarding the case, the president of the Syndicate of Taxi Drivers of Cartagena (Sincontaxcar), Fran Alberto Sánchez Castilla, pointed out that once he was informed of it, by the operational commander of the Cartagena police, Colonel Henry Leal, contacted with the services of the Rafael Núñez airport to find out what happened and find a solution to return his belongings to the German citizen.

“Colonel Henry Leal, operational commander of the police, reported to me that the target of oblivion, the tourist Jurgen Roland Franz had left a small blue and gray suitcase in a taxi he took at the airport . It contained his passport, credit card, documents, money and a notebook with contact notes,” said Sánchez Castilla, quoted in The universal.

Sánchez Castilla also clarified that the coordinator of taxi services at the airport terminal told him that Franz had to return to the airport to ask himself to examine the security cameras and identify the taxi driver. He also offered another solution: “ask for camera videos at the hostel to obtain the plates and thus be able to determine who transported him and what happened”.

The president of Sincontaxcar warned that what happened to the German citizen, unfortunately, is something that usually happens, not because of the dishonesty of taxi drivers, in most cases, but because of the negligence of users . Although he also admitted that there are taxi drivers who take advantage of this type of situation to keep the things that users leave in the vehicles they drive.

Therefore, to find out what happened in the German’s case, Sánchez Castilla noted that you have to “locate the taxi to find out what happened”.