Cuba’s Attorney General’s Office requested between 20 and 30 years in prison for three people accused of throwing Molotov cocktails and hanging anti-government signs in state entities, official media reported this Sunday.
According to Cuban television, in a trial held “recently” in the Municipal Court of Diez de Octubre, two women and a man were accused of the crimes of continuously using explosive devices and enemy propaganda.
Un hombre y dos mujeres involucrados en acciones terroristas pagadas por mercenarios en EEUU cumplirán sanciones de 20 a 30 años de privacion de libertad. #ListaDeTerroristas #NoAlTerrorismo pic.twitter.com/lQLPlF59Y1
— MININT_CUBA (@minint_cuba) December 11, 2023
The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) wrote in a message from X (former Twitter): “A man and two women involved in terrorist actions paid for by mercenaries in the United States will serve 20–30-year prison sentences.”
The facts
The events for which they were tried took place last year, according to the prosecutor’s office, when the three defendants allegedly threw incendiary bombs against the archive of the Municipal Court of Centro Habana.
Later they would have thrown more Molotov cocktails at the provincial headquarters of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), where an injured person was reported.
The three detainees are also accused of placing “anti-revolutionary” signs on the walls of several government offices.
The report also released a confession from the alleged ringleader, identified as Lázaro García Ríos. In it, he assures that the orders and financing came from people residing in the United States.
Payments from abroad
The audiovisual material specifically cited a person identified as Willy González along with other “intellectual authors” such as Manuel Milanés, Kiki Naranjo, and Alfredo González. It was mentioned that the former “recharged” the defendants’ mobile phones.
“They are terrorists who want to destabilize citizen tranquility and order in the country,” said the first police instructor in the case, Olaima Reyes, in statements to the news program.
Some of these names appear on the list of terrorist people and entities published this Thursday by Cuba. Official media have warned in recent days of an alleged campaign promoted from the United States (presumably from Cuban circles in Florida) to destabilize the country.
This weekend the arrest of a Cuban resident in the United States who was detained on the island and is accused of preparing “violent actions” was announced.
EFE/OnCuba
