“We are living in very difficult times.” With this statement, the mayor of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Luis Astudillo, referred to the death of a 19-year-old boy this Thursday as a result of a bullet impact in the town of La Victoria; located in the commune of the Metropolitan Region.
With a call to “intervene these drug gangs with personnel who are trained, who have the necessary tools,” the community chief assured that the death of the young man outside a Cesfam “is the straw that overflowed the camel’s back.”
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Mayor Astudillo told the radio Cooperative that “we have been insisting for several months with the central government and with the previous administration, requesting a greater presence of the police, that action be taken, because there are sectors of the commune that have been taken over by organized crime gangs, where shootouts with very often.”
The mayor of Pedro Aguirre Cerda ruled that “there is no way to stop this situation.” And he related: “we had made several steps with the previous government to request that it intervene, information has been provided to the Prosecutor’s Office, we have done everything in our power to stop this situation, (but) today we see that these criminals They enjoy total impunity.
Finally, Mayor Astudillo assured that it is necessary to work “everyone hand in hand” to be able to stop situations like this, affirming that “a firm hand is needed to be able to arrest those responsible.” In his opinion, they should not be allowed to “continue to dictate the laws”, because, up to now, “this has become a place where the law that governs the entire national territory is not followed and we are under the law of the criminals”.
