Miguel Aguilar, doorman of a farm in the wealthy Polanco neighborhood, remains admitted to the ICU of the Rubén Leñero hospital in Mexico City. A bullet severed his femoral artery when he confronted a robber who, with his face uncovered, was aiming at the penthouse neighbor. She was the Spanish actress Mónica Pont, settled in the Aztec capital for three and a half years, who had just arrived from spending a vacation in Cancun with her son, the young Formula-3 driver Javier Sagrera. “I cannot erase from my mind how Manuel fell to the ground, the victim of a bullet that could have been for me or for my son. He is a hero and he is between life and death.
The actress explains that at the Mexico City airport there is a very well-organized criminal organization whose method consists of studying passengers, preferably tourists, just as they leave through the arrivals gate: as she has learned, they are specialists in identifying timepieces. luxury and in calculating the amount that they exchange in the currency exchange offices. These scouts pass the information on to those who will carry out the robbery later, once the taxi arrives at your hotel or home. “They were following us from the airport. The Uber driver who was taking us home passed the block where my front door is, so he backed up, which helped the thieves to quickly enter the lobby. For this reason, the investigation considers whether he was not in cahoots with them.
Mónica and Javier entered their building normally, the door was ajar – she supposes that the doorman was cleaning at that moment – and when they were already entering the elevator they heard a voice behind them: “Give me the watches. That was what that guy in black said. We turned and he had already got one foot in the door while he had a .22 caliber pistol pointed at our heads. My son and I froze.” He didn't mean to go up to his apartment. His objective was exclusively two high-end watches, two copies of Rolex (Daytona and Datejust), whose added value amounts to 60,000 euros.
“That was when Manuel appeared and tried to take down the mugger. In the struggle he received a shot in the leg that pierced his femoral bone and he fell instantly to the ground bleeding. My son pressed the button for the eighth floor but did not give time for the doors to close: he pointed at us again and stole our watches ”. Her son pressed the button immediately, she called 911 as they went up and after leaving Xavi at home, she flew down to the lobby to attend to the ill-fated doorman. “The police arrived immediately, Polanco is a very safe area, and they did not wait for the ambulance; they themselves took Manuel”.
Monica speaks to La Vanguardia shortly before taking a plane to Miami, where she will meet with her agent in the city and the one who is arriving from Los Angeles to study her role in a new series. In Mexico she has fulfilled herself, she has been happy. Until now. For this reason, hotly, she wonders if it would not be better to leave the country:
“Today, I don't want to stay here. Now they know where I live and my life is more important than four soap operas. But... I don't want to transfer a bad image of Mexico because of the more terror that the episode that I have lived with my son has produced in me; After all, the same thing just happened to María del Monte and it was in Spain. I know that it is a tougher, more insecure country, but in which very good people live: only a Mexican would come up with a heroism like Manuel's; when they want, they want with their soul because they are very authentic. For some, life is worthless and others, like Manuel, risk their lives without thinking about it. The one who put a gun in front of my forehead is as Mexican as the humble goalkeeper of my farm who today remains in the ICU for trying to help us.
