President Gabriel Boric he referred to the murder of the carabinero Breant Rivas Manriquez (23). His death occurred in the middle of a procedure in Chillán. In this context, a subject shot the police officer. The individual was later killed. Regarding the event, the President stated that “I am not going to allow weapons to continue to proliferate in the streets.”
“Today they murdered a carabinero. In Old Chillán. They were doing a control and a third person shot at them. The person who shot and the policeman died,” Boric told Pole Radius from the Magellan region.
“We cannot continue to put up with these levels of violence. Last week, on Sunday, they shot Francisca Sandoval who is fighting every second for his life. I went to see her and talked to her family. And I am not going to allow weapons to continue to proliferate in the streets as they have been until now where there has been an exponential increase,” she added.
The fact
The colonel David Lopezprefect of the Ñuble Prefecture, reported that in the early hours of Thursday night police went to the southeastern sector of Chillán “by calls from people who warned of the presence of individuals with suspicious behavior.”
A group of individuals was traveling in a vehicle at about 1:30 am. The officials proceeded to make a control, but the subjects got out of the car and fled. After that, a chase began.
“One of them, preliminary, would have shot against the police officer, seriously wounding him to die later in the Chillán Hospital. Given this, the patrol chief, as there was current and imminent danger, fired at the aggressor, who died in the place,” Lopez said.
