Deputy Gonzalo Winter (CS) addressed the reaction of the left and the Broad Front (FA) regarding what happened last Friday, in a demonstration called by the Confederation of Students of Chile (Confech), in which a Carabineros official shot a 19 year old. The legislator maintained that his sector had a “hasty” reaction and that “he has a problem with Twitter.”
“I think there was a rush and I want to make a self-criticism: I think that my sector, and I want to be very specific, I mean the left, I mean the Broad Front, I even mean the people around me, have a problem with Twitter”, maintained the parliamentarian of the FA, in conversation with Radio Universe.
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The legislator added that the left “has a certain drive for food escalation where if you don’t quickly condemn a fact, with the little information you have, like a feeling that you become an accomplice.”
“When we are discussing facts, not ideas, not bills, (but) specific facts that occurred, when one did not witness them, one must be extremely careful to refer to them. In this case, I have already seen about three videos, I have read the statements that according to Third The victim gave the bullet and even so I am still not clear about what happened, “he continued.
In addition, he pointed out that “a mob of 15 people attacking a human being on the floor is something totally, absolutely reprehensible, I condemn it from the depths of my viscera.”
“If someone believes that people in my sector could make a distinction because the person on the floor is a policeman, they are absolutely wrong and I rule it out at the root,” he said.
The case
Let us remember that on Friday, in the middle of a Confech march, in which they demanded to increase the amount of the Food Scholarship for Higher Education (BAES), a Carabineros official shot after being attacked by a mob of people. The bullet struck a 19-year-old food delivery man who was initially believed to be a student. The person is out of gravity.
That same day, the spokeswoman Camila Vallejo described the event as “extremely serious” and reported that the Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation and that it instructed an internal summary of the Carabineros.
Subsequently, the policeman was released, after it was considered that he acted in legitimate defense.
“After a series of expert opinions, the Prosecutor’s Office determined that the first records would show that the uniformed officer had acted in legitimate defense, which is why he ordered the release of the non-commissioned officer, who was left on notice pending being summoned by the persecuting entity.” said the Public Ministry.
public criminal defender Octavio Sufan He explained that “our client, after being approached by a group of about 20 protesters who beat him to the ground, drew his service weapon to disperse the youths, shooting at the ground. And according to the first reports, the bullet would have ricocheted, injuring a person outside the protest, and that resulted in a minor subcutaneous wound.”
