The event occurred at Doctoral last Monday and was recorded in the establishment's security camera recordings.
A supermarket in the Doctoral area of Vecindario, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, was robbed last Monday, January 8, at the point of a machete. The events occurred at 21:55 p.m., as shown in the recording data, just five minutes before the store closed.
At that time, a hooded man with a red sweatshirt and panties covering half of his face entered the establishment showing a machete in his right hand with which he pointed directly at the establishment's cashier. In the recording, the individual, with a foreign accent, appears to tell the employee “I'm very sorry, very hungry” before asking her to open the cash register.
A request to which the employee responds astonished, even asking the reason for the situation; at which point the assailant increases his tone and becomes much more violent, raising the machete and threatening the employee with opening it or "cutting her first."
There were two other people in the establishment, an elderly customer whom the individual allowed to leave the premises and what appears to be another supermarket employee who recommended that the cashier give the money to the assailant in response to his cries for help.
Faced with shouts of “drop everything” and threats with the machete, the employee opens the cash register and throws about 65 euros in 5-dollar bills onto the bagging area, from which the individual quickly grabs approximately 45 euros and hurriedly puts them in. the pocket of his sweatshirt while exclaiming “keep that for yourself,” referring to the bills that were left on the counter (about 20 euros) and trying to justify his action with “there's a lot of hunger.”
The incident is already known to the authorities, but it leaves a lot of concern among businesses in the Doctoral area and the main commercial area of the municipality, Avenida de Canarias, due to the increase in crime and the fear that this will become normal. type of assaults with large knives since, despite no injuries in this specific case, the assault could have ended much worse if the cashier had shown a little more resistance.
