With two attacks on businesses this week alone, residents of the center of São Paulo report an increase in tension. Bar Brahma and a unit of the Mc Donald’s chain, targets of vandalism, have highlighted, in recent days, crime in the region, already associated with crimes of robbery and theft.
Lucas Carvalho, a resident of the region, says that the growing violence impacts his routine: “I live very close to Bar Brahma. It’s always scary to go there at night. I never get off at República station, even though it’s the closest to home. I was already robbed on that same corner, in 2021, so I avoid it and take a route with more people and movement on the street.”
To contain the crisis, according to Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB), patrolling the capital must receive 1,500 police officers and remuneration must increase for military police officers who work for the city hall on their day off.
Still, according to Carvalho, the number of police officers is insufficient to contain the robbers, who are organized into groups. The resident says that, in addition to robbers, there are those who ride in groups, on bicycles, to steal pedestrians’ cell phones.
“If I sit on the sidewalk and stay for half an hour, I see at least three robberies or thefts. I see it almost every day, it’s very common. Straight away you hear a ‘catch a thief’. At the end of the year it ends up being much worse. I was robbed only once, but I’ve already run more than five times”, says Carvalho.
Source: CNN Brasil
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