After his arrival in Arica to meet with local authorities, President Gabriel Boric made a broadcast through his Instagram account, in which he stated about the confrontation that occurred yesterday in the Los Quillayes sector of La Florida; where three policemen were wounded by bullets but without vital risk.
The head of state condemned the act and expressed his support for the uniformed institution, noting that “I want to express our deepest repudiation of the criminals who believe that they can win public space from us: they are not going to win it from us.”
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In the same instance, the President addressed the public security crisis and maintained that “as I said publicly, we are not going to give him a truce. And that is a difficult decision, we are doing what has not been done for many years, and, therefore, Therefore, fully confronting drug trafficking, with laws, with attitude, with determination, recovering our public spaces, also with prevention, but strengthening our police, is something in which we are not going to back down.”
The President also pointed to the public discussion that has been held between authorities and political figures in recent weeks, regarding the same topic: “particularly those of us who are in politics, that there be no opportunism in this.”
“This is not for the government, it is not to upload it in any survey, this is for Chile and for its people, we are not going to naturalize crime and the firepower it is having,” added the president: a call from power Executive have carried out on multiple occasions since the beginning of the exchanges in the media regarding the security agenda.
Likewise, after explaining the fact, Boric insisted that in the case of the incident in La Florida, “one of the criminals was killed and the other detained, and the weapons they were carrying were recovered, which is what awaits them, because we are going to fight the delinquency and drug trafficking on all fronts”.
Video via Instagram: @GabrielBoric
