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It's Not Safe To Go Dining Anymore
In Costa Rica!
Assailants continue to attack and without
discrimination restaurants, making it unsafe
to go out dining anymore. The latest attack
occurred last night (Sunday) at the Café
Verbena, in Tres Ríos, La Unión, when three
men yelled out "Esto es un asalto!".
The three men described as being black,
wearing hoods over their heads, took the
restaurant by storm with the objective, like
many others occurring over the past few
months, of taking what they could from the
cash register and the belongings of
customers.
However, this time, something went terribly
wrong, when 75 year old Antonio Lehmann
Struve decided to confront the assailants,
losing his life in the struggle, angering
the assailants, shooting the man in the head
in rage.
Lehman is the founder of the Lehman
bookstore.
A report by the Fuerza Pública (police)
indicates that the men went from table to
table taking valuables from patrons. When
they reached the Lehman table, Antonio
decided to pull a chair with an intent to
strike one of the assailants, a move that
cost him his life. Panic ensued, customers
took cover under tables and the three
assailants fled the scene with nothing,
taking off in a hurry in a waiting vehicle.
Unfortunately, these types of acts are
occurring with more frequency as criminal
elements attack without pity and
discrimination, taking advantage that
surprise of customers who cannot do much
except submit to the will of the assailants
and the hope that it will be over quickly
and without incident.
Last Sunday assailants attacked the Spoon
restaurant across the US Embassy in Pavas,
but were later captured by quick police
action and tried and sentenced to 4 1/1
years in prison in a record 19 hours by the
Tribunal de Flagrancia.
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