The Prosecutor’s Office formalized and placed in pretrial detention the five subjects who were arrested after the arson attacks carried out last Tuesday in Lautaro and Cholchol, La Araucanía region.
In the operation carried out by personnel from the Carabineros, the Investigative Police and the Army, Pelentaro Llaitul Pezoa (19 years old) was arrested, the youngest son of the head of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Héctor Llaitul, who is currently also He is in pretrial detention for the crimes of wood theft, usurpation and attack against authority.
In addition to Llaitul’s son, the Prosecutor’s Office formalized Luis Menares Chañilao, Luis Fuenzalida Eneros, Jorge Caniupil Coña and Juan Carlos Mardones Sáez for the crimes of arson, repeated arson, qualified robbery with retention, robbery with intimidation, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and for unjustified shooting.
? @FISCALIA_IX requested preventive detention for Pelentaro Llaitul and 4 other people detained for @CarabAraucania after arson attacks perpetrated on Tuesday in Lautaro and Chol Chol. They were formalized for repeated fire, robbery with retention and other crimes pic.twitter.com/xzmxR60gRU
– Araucanía Prosecutor’s Office (@FISCALIA_IX) November 25, 2022
It should be noted that the hearing was interrupted and postponed after the defendants demanded to appear in person. In fact, at the detention control hearing this Wednesday, the judge of the Lautaro court, Eduardo Pérez, had given rise to the instance being carried out in a mixed way, with the presence of those arrested and their defenses in the room and the other interveners electronically, recorded Third.
However, after the CAM called for demonstrations to be held for Llaitul’s son, the magistrate decided to reverse his decision for security reasons.
“If what we request (to be in person) is not complied with, we are going to leave. We are going to withdraw from the hearing until it is not in person,” said one of the defendants defiantly towards Pérez, who stressed that ” the court will not be subject to pressure”.
