President Gabriel Boric after an attempted attack: “We are going to continue talking with the people who agree and with those who disagree”

A man threw a stone at the President this afternoon Gabriel Boric, as part of his visit to the Coquimbo region. Specifically, the event occurred in La Serena. The blunt object hit Boric’s chief of staff, Matias Meza-Lopehandia. Regarding the attempted aggression, the President said that “we are going to continue talking with the people who agree with us and with those who do not agree with us.”

“If someone believes that they can intimidate me or change the way we want to govern, they are very wrong. We are going to continue talking with the people who agree with us and with those who do not agree with us,” said the president.

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“If we are locked up and if we only talk to authorities in ultra-protected places, we are going to miss an important part of what is happening in Chile, so I am going to continue going out on the streets, I am going to continue with my agenda and with my way of to be, so that no one has any doubt about it,” he added.

Later, when asked if he would file a complaint, he stated that the incident “was something very minor” and that “we are on another much more important agenda.”

assault attempt

The attempted attack occurred on the outskirts of the regional government, located in La Serena, after 3:00 p.m. Before entering the headquarters, the President approached the papal fences to talk with a group of people. In this context, a 31-year-old man threw a stone at him, which finally landed on Meza-Lopehandia’s chest.

The subject who threw the blunt object was protesting the rejection of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies to the project of the fifth withdrawal of pension savings. The man was detained by presidential security personnel.

“It was a stone that hit one of the president’s advisers in the chest. He was detained by presidential security personnel and handed over to territorial personnel, to our personnel. He was transferred to the Police Station to adopt the rigorous procedure, ”said the Carabineros colonel. Rodrigo Alvarado in conversation with Chilevision.