Two young men robbed an ice cream shop in the west of Neuquén capital. They acted with guns. One of them struggled with the employee who told him to leave, but an accomplice appeared and with a gun, they finally managed to get the worker to step aside so they could take cash.

The robbery occurred last Wednesday night, around 11:30 p.m., on Néstor Barro Street, a few blocks from Novella.

A thief entered alone first and the employee of the place engaged in a fight with him. He managed to take him to the door where he asked him to leave. "Go away, there is the camera," the employee told him.

But then another criminal appeared. There was more exchange of words: "Dude, I'm coming to work here," but between the two of them, threatening him with a gun, they managed to get him to step aside and end up taking the money.

The store has already had other episodes of violent robberies, but the problem affects the entire western part of the capital where the owner of a store was stabbed and an employee was shot. In this case, the criminals were recorded on the cameras of the place and are believed to be neighbors of the area.

Georgina Ñanco, president of the Neuquén Chamber of Commerce, said that merchants in the sector are organizing themselves. "They want to defend themselves because the government does not provide the necessary security," she explained, and specified that in recent days there has been a large wave of robberies on Godoy Street, between Novella and Avenida del Trabajador.

"It's not possible that we work behind bars, with 10,000 cameras, with panic buttons," complained Ñanco, who complained about the lack of police, vehicles and security.