Amanda critiques the scene in her head again and again and finds no rationalization for what she did. Pointed by a gun, this tobacconist from the middle of Granada didn’t reply with concern, she responded with anger and confronted her robber with phrases. “If you might have eggs, shoot,” she informed him, as she pocketed the cash so it would not be stolen.
To perceive her response, maybe one should first perceive Amanda. After 17 years working as a store assistant, in 2022 she threw the blanket over her head and arrange her personal. A dream that has nothing to do with the dream. “I spend 13 hours working and I barely handle to pay bills,” says the tobacconist, with three kids and pregnant with a fourth. “She’s a woman,” says Amanda.
Something like that will need to have crossed Amanda’s thoughts final Monday when she noticed a person she suspected since he walked within the door enter her retailer. “My daughter and I have been consuming within the again room once I noticed him on the safety digicam,” she tells NIUS. Valeria, 12 years outdated, stayed inside. “Don’t go away right here,” her mom informed her as she stepped out of it.
Hooded and with a gun
“She was carrying a hood, panties that she pulled up instantly and her hand holding one thing in her crotch,” remembers the tobacconist. At that second, she observed that what she was holding together with her hand was a gun that was protruding of her pants, nevertheless it was too late. Amanda was on the counter nose to nose with the mugger touching the anti-mugging button.
The robber took out his gun and whereas pointing it at him informed him to provide him all the cash. “If you do not transfer, nothing will occur to you.” But Amanda replied that her boss had simply taken the entire field and that there was no cash in there. She was making it up whereas she heard her daughter Valeria sobbing, who noticed the entire scene on the safety cameras.
At that second Amanda grabbed a small basket from the counter the place she retains unfastened payments and a few change for change. “There have been two payments of 5 and one in all ten,” remembers the tobacconist. In whole 20 euros with which she may have tried to get out of that scenario… But she Amanda took the cash, she confirmed it to the robber and put it in her pocket in entrance of him.
The ‘Rambo’ of the middle of Granada
“If you might have eggs, shoot,” he informed her then, “I’m not going to provide you a penny.” So firmly did she say it that the thief gave up and gave up. In the center of the theft he put away the pistol and left the tried theft empty-handed. He hadn’t even left the shop door but and Amanda was already working after him. “He went to a different retailer close by the place they did give him the cash,” says Amanda.
“I ought to have given him every part too,” says the tobacconist now, interested by it coldly. She tells everybody in her neighborhood, the place she is the speak of the neighbors right this moment. “They name me the ‘Rambo’ of the middle of Granada,” says Amanda, considerably regretful for her response. “The purpose did not converse to me,” she confesses to NIUS, “however no person teaches you to react to that.”
At the second the robber has not been recognized and the police are in search of him. “He was Spanish, younger, blond and with blue eyes,” Amanda says, “I’ll always remember how he checked out me.” Surely he cannot neglect the look of this tobacconist who stood as much as a gun with simply phrases.