CHATEAUBELAIR, St. Vincent da Grenadines - Lokacin da wasu mutane biyu dauke da cutlasses da na uku dauke da bindiga suka fashe a kan jirgin ruwansu da karfe 1:30 na safe, Allison Botros da sauran mutane bakwai da ke cikin jirgin suka gane cewa "Pirates of the Caribbean" ba fim kawai ba.
"Ku ba mu kuɗin ku ko mu kashe ku," in ji Botros, wata mahaifiyar 'ya'ya uku daga Cleveland da ke balaguro tare da abokan Sweden da Amurkawa, ta tuno da ƴan fashin da suka gaya musu a cikin minti 15 da sace Sway mai ƙafa 70, wanda aka kafa a cikin wannan. tashar jiragen ruwa mai ƙaƙƙarfar inuwar da dutsen mai aman wuta na Soufrière ya ke kuma yana karkata ta dabino.
After shaking down the passengers for thousands of dollars in cash, watches, cameras and cellphones, the robbers ordered skipper Harald Krecker to motor out to sea or be hit with rocket-propelled grenades.
Five months after the Dec. 22 incident, the robbery victims have yet to receive a police report, the pirates remain at large and the sleek yachts that ply the teal waters of the Windward Islands have gone elsewhere, making a ghost town of scenic Chateaubelair.
Ƙarin hare-hare, ƙarin tashin hankali
Hare-haren da ake kai wa jiragen ruwa a fadin yankin Caribbean ya lalata rayuwar jin dadi da kuma karuwa yayin da yawan jiragen ruwa da ke tafiya a cikin tsibiran tsibirai ke karuwa kowace shekara, da kuma yadda matukan jirgin ke janyo hankalin barayi da masu safarar miyagun kwayoyi a yankin.
Akalla wasu hare-hare uku ne aka ruwaito a Chateaubelair a cikin makonni biyu a cikin watan Disamba, dukkansu sun hada da maza uku, dogayen wukake biyu da kuma bindigar hannu.
“What is new in the last two to three years is an increase in the use of weapons,” said Melodye Pompa, administrator of the Caribbean Safety and Security Net Web site, a sailing community endeavor that logs thefts, robberies and assaults committed against boaters. “It’s becoming more violent. I’ve tracked that across the region we cover.”
Galibin daruruwan al'amuran da aka tattara daga kasashe da yankuna 30 a cikin shekaru hudun da suka gabata sun hada da fashi da makami da satar motoci ko satar jiragen ruwa yayin da fasinjoji ke bakin teku. Amma ana amfani da bindigogi da wukake akai-akai, kuma abubuwa da dama da suka hada da duka da wuka na daga cikin laifukan da aka ruwaito a gidan yanar gizon, wanda ya tattara kididdigar ta daga masu aikin haya, jiragen ruwa, masu kula da tashar jiragen ruwa da wadanda abin ya shafa.
No one on board the Sway was hurt, but the captain of another yacht, the Chiquita, which was attacked the next night, suffered multiple cuts, including two head wounds that required stitches at a hospital in Kingstown, the island nation’s capital.
“There are times when it’s happening and you think it’s not real,” Botros said. “At one point one of them said, ‘If you don’t find your wallet, I’ll kill you,’ and I was so traumatized I forgot that I hadn’t brought my wallet on the trip. I was saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t find it! I’ve got to find it!’ thinking about our kids at home.”
Maziyartan Yachting da masu ba da kayayyaki na gida waɗanda ke ba su abinci sune jigon tattalin arzikin tsibirin Caribbean da yawa, gami da St. Vincent's. Yarjejeniyar jirgin ruwa na mako guda na jirgin ruwa na alfarma kamar Sway ya kai sama da dala 13,000 tare da kashe kuɗi, da kuma manyan jiragen ruwa, tare da wuraren shakatawa da jirage masu saukar ungulu, suna ƙara faɗuwar anka da taska a tashar jiragen ruwa mara kyau na yankin.
The December crime wave here prompted some added vigilance by the coast guard and police, but specifics of the response were unclear. Representatives of the St. Vincent police did not return calls or e-mails after receiving a request for an interview on what they were doing to combat crime against yachts.
The attacks also galvanized the island’s sailing businesses. Fearing for their livelihoods, yacht charterers and provisioners anted up funds for a patrol boat and published a list of do’s and don’ts for prospective cruisers. Some felt that only put the dangers in black and white.
"Idan na samu wannan, zan hau jirgi na gaba daga nan in koma gida," in ji Mary Barnard, manajan darakta na Barefoot Yacht Charters, game da ƙasidan, wanda ke ba da shawara ga matuƙan jirgin ruwa su kasance a kulle, a cikin jirgin da kuma gadi. a kowane lokaci.
Ta fitar da wata wasiƙa daga wasu ma’aurata ‘yan ƙasar Kanada waɗanda suka kasance kwastomomi na tsawon shekaru, inda suka ce harin da wasu mutane dauke da adduna suka yi musu a watan Yuni na 2006 da kuma fashi da makami ya tilasta musu su daina tuƙi a yankinku.
A gidan cin abinci na bakin teku na bakin teku da ke tashar tashar Chateaubelair, ma'aikacin Felix Granderson ya ce yana tsammanin zai iya zama mafi aminci a yanzu saboda matakan tsaro amma yana da wahala a fada saboda matukan jirgin ruwa sun daina tsayawa a nan. Ya ce ‘yan fashin sun rabe ne a manyan tsaunuka da ke sama da tashar jiragen ruwa.
“Kowa ya san wanda ke yi. Mutane ne da ba sa son yin aiki, daga Fitz-Hughes, ”in ji shi, yana nufin wani ƙauye mai nisa a gefen La Soufrière.
Ko da an kama su a cikin laifukan da ake yi wa jiragen ruwa, wadanda abin ya shafa ba safai suke komawa don tantance ko ba da shaida a kan maharan, in ji Chris Doyle, marubucin shahararrun jagororin safarar jiragen ruwa na Caribbean.
"Tsibiran suna da tsarin shari'a wanda ya samo asali kadan kuma yana goyon bayan mai laifi idan wanda aka azabtar bai tsaya a kusa ba," in ji shi, yana bayyana dalilin da yasa ba safai ake tuhumar masu fashin jirgin ruwa.
An busa daga gwargwado?
'Yan sanda a tsibiran sun kasance suna cikin "yanayin amsawa," in ji Pompa game da ɗan gajeren lokaci na damuwa da bincike da ke biyo bayan abubuwan da suka faru. Amma wasu tsibiran sun ɗauki darussa daga mummunar tallan da ake yi lokacin da suka shiga masana'antar yawon shakatawa da yawancinsu suka dogara da su.
“Dominica, up until about eight years ago, had a terrible reputation, and it was deserved,” she said of the island about 135 miles north of here where pirates preyed on visiting vessels. When sailors stopped anchoring there, the prime minister got the business community together to bankroll a patrol boat that has reduced onboard crimes drastically, she said.
Pirates who attacked a yacht in Rodney Bay in St. Lucia — about 60 miles north of here — two years ago severely beat the captain and raped his wife, causing the number of visits to drop by half, Pompa said she was told by local officials. The government deployed a port patrol boat, which “seems to be somewhat of a deterrent,” Pompa said.
Laifukan da ake yi wa masu kwale-kwale sun ragu a ko'ina cikin St. Lucia a wannan shekara, in ji ta, kuma babu wani abin da ya faru na baya-bayan nan da ya shafi tashin hankali, bisa ga bayanan yanar gizo a safeandsecuritynet.com.
Wasu da ke da doguwar gogewa a cikin tekun Caribbean sun yi iƙirarin cewa ba wai laifi ya ƙaru ba, sai dai yawan zirga-zirgar ababen hawa da hanyoyin sadarwa da abubuwan da suka faru.
“There’s definitely a concern, but it’s really hard to say if there is more crime against yachts than there ever was or if dissemination of the information is just better now,” said Sally Erdle, editor of the Caribbean Compass, a monthly newspaper published in Bequia, another island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines popular with the sailing crowd. “With the Internet, the yachts all e-mail reports of these incidents far and wide immediately, and also discuss them on yacht and ham-radio nets.”
The seaboard jungle drums also can generate multiple reports of a single incident, she noted, “turning it into a dozen in the minds of the public.”
"Mummunan abubuwa suna zuwa cikin raƙuman ruwa," in ji marubuci Doyle, wanda cruisingguides.com ya haɗa da shawarwari game da raƙuman laifuka a wuraren da ke da matukar damuwa kamar tsibirin Venezuelan da Chateaubelair.
"Idan muna da matsala tare da wadanda ke da alhakin har yanzu suna kwance, muna bukatar mu gwada da gargadin mutane," in ji shi.
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