Nuns, cursed and funeral numbers: the crime cabals

The quiniela says that 32 is money, 44 the prison and 79, the thief.But many more things are said in the streets.The criminals have their cabals.In general, those who comply are the so -called “white glove” or professional or organized.Those who commit crimes under the effects of drugs, or without analyzing whether in the area there are police or security cameras, do not usually believe in anything.

Julian was driving a high displacement motorcycle.Destiny was the Buenos Aires microcenter: the victim was already marked.He had left a bank.On the motorcycle, companion, I was the accomplice of him.The one in the jargon is told "the downspout", because he is the one who goes down and snatches the briefcase.

They were hurried, but on the way they crossed a nun.And they did not hesitate: they stopped, climbed the path, parked the motorcycle and approached him.The other part of the band followed the victim closely, and was waiting for them.But if they had known who they had crossed, they would endorse the attitude.

Julian and the "downturn", who are Colombians, greeted the nun in one of the many streets of the city of Buenos Aires.They took a talk from her, greeted her with a kiss, asked her blessing.And the most important thing about her: they touched her cassock.Just there they continued with her plan.

Minutes later, when they counted and separated the loot in equal parts in an office that they rented only for these types of meetings, they told their companions about the sequence with the nose.All confirmed one of the many "laws" that the world of crime has (in this case Colombian) to call "luck and silver."Argentine thieves also believe in that.But the ritual is different.They get off the car, or the motorcycle, reach the nun and turn around.It is said that if they cross her walking, luck, and silver, she will be with them in the next robbery.

Carlitos is over 70 years old and begins to enumerate his cabals and those of some of the thieves he met.Hitting an accomplice with a newspaper, or revoking a bread, is synonymous with a near future in jail.If as long as they go looking for a victim they find a move, they trust: that is synonymous with the fact that they will do well.The same with a grass background.If a comb falls, they step on it: that represents "the lot of money that will win that day."But it fell does not have to be forced.

The best thing that can go to the height of a bakery is to see employees down and enter flour bags.At that time the thieves get their hands in their pockets and name the word "silver" quietly.

Chilean assailants, on the other hand, trust themselves when they coincide in the street with an ambulance."I also had colleagues who wear the same underwear. Each one has their cabals," he says, at a lunch on a three of February.

Wearing the same clothes and the same actions that they did the day they stole and it was very common to them.They remember the beach that charged them with that day and they go and ask that he load them.They remember the waitress who attended them that noon and return and ask for her.They are always generous with tips because these people, they believe, they will wish them "good energies."As much as they do not know what they do or what they are about to do when they say goodbye to them.The roads are also repeated.They take the avenues or blocks of the day that did well.There are even bank salider bands that if on Tuesday they stole a briefcase with a lot of money, begin to steal every Tuesday.

There are bands that believe that "to the street you have to pay."Based on that belief, they leave money in some corner.Another that is universal is, in case of coinciding in a traffic light with a armored truck, touching it.That is "calling money.""I have gotten out of the car and invite McDonald's to four boys who asked for coins at the door," says another thief over 70 years.Although he clarifies: "I am positive and above all things I believe in me and in my accomplices. Anyway respect those who believe in those things because they are playing their life and their freedom. In addition it is always good to win the energies ofPeople who cross along the way and share what you have with people who have needs. It gives us security and strength. "

Then, in that logic, if they see someone selling, they buy him.No matter what it sells.If you see a family asking, they help her with money.And if they see children asking for coins, they buy them from eating.Then they continue on their way.

But just as there are rituals to "call money, luck and energies", there are others to avoid evil and the police."In our car certain numbers are prohibited," says Carlitos.Instead of saying 13 or 17 they say "12+1" or "20-3".In the car, they are also avoided by appointing people who consider "stones."The last time they did ended at a police station.Tuesdays do not leave their homes.As much as they deliver some good data of a victim.The rainy days - they are not good."Tell the time you got off the car because your partner named one of those numbers," he asks for a friend who listens to the conversation.

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And just as Carlitos got off the car and preferred to return home without looking for victims, there are thieves who do the same if a black cat is crossed along the way.Or that they do not touch salt or oil bottles the day they will go to steal.There are also those who turn on a candle when leaving."Help me to return quickly," they ask a saint or a virgin.But that, more than a cabal, is faith.

The "international" Colombians who steal in Buenos Aires have many more cabals or more signals.The patents of the cars speak: "000" is "luck to earn dollars.""111" is "freedom, that they steal calm that nothing will happen to them."The problems are represented with the "555" and the surprise in the "444".

While they go around and are pending patents and nuns, the best thing that can happen to them is to find a marriage in a church or CGP."Oh Dad: there we told ourselves' Today we earned the money from an apartment to return to Bogotá," Julian recalls, who stopped and went up to the sidewalk to touch the nun.

As there is another that is "movie": if they see a burial or a caravan that accompanies a funeral car, they stretch an arm up, and make the gesture of as if they could grab a handful of air.Then they take their hand to their pockets."It is that death enlightens us. That is why we always ask souls and we go to the cemetery, to ask for our freedom and good ankle boots," he argues.

The same gesture of the arm up and then they do it when they listen and see a plane.That means "luck to travel to steal to a new destination."If they are watching television and images of dollars or money appear (either in a movie or on the news) they approach the screen and touch it.When they steal and distribute the loot in equal parts, the ritual is to rub silver through their bodies: they stretch their arms and legs and another partner is responsible for doing so.

Julian, in his pockets, always carries three pesos in coins: one of two and one of one.The most common are the dollar bills.And he who gets, saves and always carries the $ 2 bill, which is very difficult to find.

The "international" also analyze which woman they left when they won their best ankle boots.Or his streaks.“The idea of one is always to continue earning money.There are Manes that continue to see certain women just because they consider them to be lucky.No matter how much they feel nothing.But the belief in our field is very important, ”says Julián.

Repeating the clothing with which they did well is typical of "international" and Argentines."It's the energy of clothes," they say.They also talk to the tools used in their robberies.The scruples, to their barretas and screwdrivers;Bank salider pilots, to their motorcycles.They speak to them as if they were a saint or a virgin.They also caress them.Sometimes they put nicknames or names and the "miman."

The last belief has to do with the typical phrase that "silver calls silver and misery calls misery."“That is that if for example something breaks in my house, such as a TV.I do not fix it or leave it broken.That would be to call bad energies.I throw it and buy a new one.If we do not have money, we borrow, or we buy it with a card, or we go to those premises that give a loan with DNI.We will have a debt, but good energies will be on our side to help us find good ankle boots, ”says another thief.

Another custom is to give someone from the family, or a friend.“What is born.But the concept is to share a part of what you earn.It is the way we have to believe that we will continue to have freedom and good blows, ”concludes the thief, who is stopped in Marcos Paz.