translated from Spanish: SAMU reports that Carabineros’ actions prevented swift reaction on young people who died in Plaza Italia

The Associations of the Metropolitan Emergency Health Care Service (SAMU) indicated that the acting of Special Forces made it difficult to resuscitate and assist the 29-year-old who died after suffering a cardiac arrest in Plaza Italia the noc I’ve had this Friday. The SAMU has already filed the complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office.The statement shared by the Medical College details that, at the arrival of the ambulance in that sector, “medical equipment and first responders were assaulted by Special Forces personnel Carabinieri, through car launchers, tear gas and firing of riot weapons.” They added that “aggression prevented the patient from providing the necessary care, and resuscitation should be delayed and the patient’s evacuation forced, due to the insecurity of the scene,” he adds. In addition, SAMU found that one of the servants who resuscitated the young man was injured in the leg by Balinese fired by FF.EE., in support of them, the institution asserts an audiovisual record of the fact, in addition to the corresponding injury finding.” We demand an immediate and blunt response from the authority, as this situation violates the safety of health equipment,” they said. As health officials, we cannot tolerate the actions of the Police Force. In our usual performance we collaborate with Carabineros in different instances, and we have no record of a situation in which the Police Force itself assaulted health personnel,” the document concludes.Read also: Square Italy protester died of heart attack

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