Video: Unusual robbery in a church in Bucaramanga

On security cameras, it was possible to record how in the Catholic church Jesús Obrero in the Diamante neighborhood of the capital of the department of Santander, a subject entered covering his face and calmly stole the cell phone with which the church masses were being transmitted.

The crime happened in the morning, it can be seen how the subject enters the church which is with its doors open but without any parishioners. The man walks quietly looking for something. He reaches the pulpit and realizes that there is a cell phone on a tripod with which they recorded and transmitted the masses of the Catholic temple in the Diamante neighborhood, then he takes it and leaves a little faster.

The thief didn't even have a scarf or any resource with which he could cover his face, he only used his shirt to cover part of his face. The fact has been widely questioned by Internet users who made the video viral and by community in the sector.

“In the videos you can see that the thief enters without any scruples, takes advantage of the fact that the temple was open and lonely... We have seen the security of the sector lately. Starting the year two thieves on a motorcycle shot a young man and now the thieves are still at large,” said Blu Inhabitants del Diamante.

For their part, the authorities have stated that they are collecting the indicated evidence that could bring them closer to the criminal who committed theft against the religious community of the Catholic Jesús Obrero.

But this is not the only unusual event that has happened in a religious site recently in the country, since in Bogotá on Sunday, March 20, young hooded men decided to interrupt the religious ceremony that was taking place in the Primada Cathedral.

With posters in hand, citizens demonstrated within that space, however, they were forced to leave by church officials. What happened generated dozens of reactions on social networks, including from different politicians in the country. The protesters read messages in which they questioned several of the conjunctural situations surrounding the Colombian community.

“Peace? What peace are we talking about? When we forget to love each other. The peace of the secular country of ideological impositions. The country that annihilates the hopes of the peoples. That weeps the blood of sisters and brothers. This is the first performance of RAR”, is read in one of the trills in which a young woman is seen standing on one of the benches of the cathedral. The woman, with a piece of paper in her hands, read that same message.

“The church is a fascist, controlling and sexist institution,” was added among the harangues shouted by the protesters.

According to what is read in that Twitter profile, the RAR is the 'Network of Artists in Resistence'. That collective points out in their account that: “We scream and poetize in the face of the unjust, they have fire in their weapons, we fire in our hearts”. Precisely, before the viralization of the video of the controversial protest, that profile of that social network warned of its realization. “We will walk this path together from the street and dignified anger, from academia and reflection, from art and collective creation, our struggle continues to grow day after day”, the account also appears under the classification of 'restricted'.

The parish primacy of the Primada Cathedral, Father Jorge Marín, commented before the microphones of the local news program CityTV that, “They entered with masks and took part in the benches to participate in the celebration, like anyone else. And when communion was about to begin, they hooded up right there, stood on the benches and started shouting harangues. But it was not understood what they were asking for or what movement they were from.”

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