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Two Argentines who traveled by motorcycle in Cozumel Last Saturday, a Mexican island in front of Playa del Carmen, they were run over by police officers in a patrol car and flew through the air, as seen in a shocking security video that recorded the event. One of them is seriously ill and his family raises money so that he can return to the country in a medical plane.
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Darian Stacco, 28 years old, who had gone to the Cancun area to explore job opportunities and planned to return to Argentina on April 2, was on a rented motorcycle with a friend, Light Ariesat the time of the incident, which occurred at the intersection of Avenida 20 and Calle 8 Norte, in downtown Cozumel.
According to the local media Red Code, which published the video of the impact, witnesses to the event said that the patrol car was traveling without its lights or sirens on and was speeding. For its part, the newspaper La Nueva de Bahía Blanca – where Stracco and Arias are from – indicated that “there was a stop sign on the corner, but Darian, who is unaware of the country’s signage, did not notice it.”
“My brother had traveled to Mexico on Tuesday in search of a job opportunity. She had two friends who were already there working. A few days ago she had gotten an interview with one of the girls and they had rented a motorcycle to go to the place. It turns out that, on one of the journeys, a police patrol that was just in an emergency rammed them and this mobile was coming at high speed, without alarms or sirens on, “said Sthephanie Stacco, Darian’s sister, to Telefe de Bahía Blanca.
“They rammed them and they flew through the air. Darian is unconscious and they practically did not treat him because, being a red code, they referred him to a private clinic that was closer and that, in order to be treated, they need us to pay him $20,000 and $6,000 per day for hospitalization ” , expressed last Monday.
“The police carried them up in the air and Darian suffered the worst impact. Luz, her friend was transferred with a yellow alert, without serious injuries, only in one leg, but Darian, who had a red alert, was transferred to the nearest hospital, which is private,” said her mother, Marcela Paz. . Arias ultimately had to have his injured leg amputated.
According to the family, the clinic where the Argentine is, will not take him to the operations area until all the expenses are paid, and they warned that they could transfer him to a public hospital that did not have the necessary benefits to attend to his situation.
“He should have been operated on by now, he has ribs embedded in his lungs, head trauma and fractures throughout his body,” said the mother.
The family indicated that the insurance policies cover US$30,000 and that the operation has a final cost of US$100,000. The medical plane costs US$85,000.
“I need to bring my son to Argentina. The plane is on us because neither the Argentine nor the Mexican consulate covers it for you, ”he said. According to him, the Argentine doctors at the Fernández Hospital already have the diagnosis and are waiting for urgent surgery.
“Thanks to the consulate of Playa del Carmen and the legal sector of the clinic where Darian is, who pressured the motorcycle insurance to speed up the process, last night he deposited 100,000 Mexican pesos [unos 5000 dólares]”, he added.
Yesterday, Paz reported through his Facebook account that he had received a call from “a human angel” from Tierra del Fuego “who found out what had happened and to collaborate offered us the much cheaper plane service.”
According to Telefe Bahía Blanca, sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs speak of a context of “a lot of hostility” in the link with Migrations of Mexico and a reluctant tendency for “young Latin Americans to settle in Cancun for various reasons.”
Source: Elcomercio
