The writer Elena Poniatowska, after the robbery of her house: "The thief did not take a single book, that gives me a lot of sadness"

The writer Elena Poniatowska, after the robbery of her house: "The thief did not take a single book, that gives me a lot of sadness"

The writer Elena Poniatowska, after the robbery of her house: "The thief did not take a single book, that gives me a lot of sadness"

They stole at the house of Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska and the author says that she is sorry for no book."They looked for, we found all arrival legs, but the thief was not interested or a single book," he tells El País, "it gives me even sadness, here in Mexico nobody ever steals one".The author has denounced the theft of her personal computer and a CD reader.

Sunday, returning at 17.00 of a meal with her children in a Lebanese restaurant near her home, the writer found the open door and the house, located in the quiet colony of Chimalistac, south of Mexico City, all messy."The panties, the bras, all on the ground...They were looking for something, a jeweler or something, but I don't have jewelry, I don't have masterpieces here either, although perhaps for that a specialized thief would need, ”he says.

The author, Cervantes Award in 2013, points out that she had many personal documents on the robbed laptop: the columns that writes every Sunday in the newspaper La Jornada, the beginning of a new novel and that of a story."But I have those in my head, which is also a computer, I hope I don't find out," says ironic.The family has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of Mexico City, which has opened an investigation folder for home robbery without violence and displaced to the place in photography, dactyloscopy, criminal and valuation experts.

La escritora Elena Poniatowska, tras el robo a su casa: “El ladrón no se llevó ni un solo libro, eso me da mucha tristeza”

"At least 70 units came to my house, one after another, everyone came to see, also some private, some civil dressed and others with their blue uniforms," says the writer, who adds that in the neighborhood there is private security, but that "earned a hat" to the thieves.Chimalistac is a colony of cobbled streets and ivy in walls and walls, hidden between Coyoacán and San Ángel, in the mayor of Álvaro Obregón.

The writer, who acknowledges that she is very confident - "I tell them: Páasce him to the house, pass him" -, he lives near a little park and a parish: "They must be Sunday thieves, who go to Mass first".And apostille: “I imagine it was to steal in my house or in the church, but the things in the church are great and it is difficult to take them.My laptop was easy, I think they are going to sell it ”.

Poniatowska, 89, says that it will not take any additional security measure: "What measure will I take, if I am going to die," he stops a second and adds, "maybe a helmet, in case they give meWith a deck on the head ".He refuses to count on the protection of a dog, because he already had one, Shadow, who died and gave him a lot.

Although it tries to take importance, the writer acknowledges that yesterday was very good, but today she has dawned "a little sad": "A robbery is an aggression, it is a violation of your intimacy".But before hanging up the phone, given the wishes to recover the mood, it is recomposed and ends: "Surely tomorrow I already woke up happier".

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