translated from Spanish: Although “washing hands”, Guevara adds a new chaotic Friday: Alameda Art Center is left in ashes by carabineros action

As well as the image of last Friday, on the first Friday of the “preventive cup” applied by the metropolitan mayor Felipe Guevara (RN), was that of the brutal outrage of the young Oscar Pérez by a “zorrillo” by Car abideby, this day the failed strategy of the authority left in the retina the fire of the Alameda Art Center, an emblem of the sector of Plaza Baquedano.
At least ten fire companies worked on containment of the accident in the building located in Alameda and housing one of the last traditional cinemas in the country. In addition, during the outbreak, the compound functioned as a center to serve the wounded of the protests, attended by volunteers of the Emergency Medical Care Service (SAMU) outside of their working hours. According to early records, the fire began with a tear bomb that fell on the roof of the enclosure, so responsibility again points to Carabineros.
Failed strategy
As every Friday since October 18, Plaza Italia became the epicenter of a new day of demonstrations in Santiago.  Early on, the uniformed police deployed a vast police contingent in the sector, replicating what happened last Friday on the first day of “preventive copacation.”
For this day, the call was marked by the call to the march “K-Pop”, organized through social networks after the report of “Big Data” that pointed to fans of Oriental music as one of those responsible for the events of violence that occurred during the social outburst. It was also stamped as the last mass mobilization of the year.
However, when the images of the strong police contingent were already circulating in the sector, through his Twitter account, the mayor Felipe Guevara opened a thread, seeking to demarcate himself from the device, on the grounds that “police operatives, by law, are carabinieri’s sole prerogative.”
Guevara thus tried to disengage from the image of “ideologue” of the preventive cup, a “zero tolerance” tactic that cost him a barrage of criticism last week and questioned his political capital.  “We support their work when done with compliance with standards and protocols and I strongly count when there are excesses,” he added.
However, the strategy deployed by Carabineros in “Zone Zero” again failed and as last Friday, the day led to incidents between protesters and police forces in and around Plaza Italia.
“A first impression is that this strategy seems absolutely ineffective in terms of its objectives, because the points of clashes between protesters and Carabineros have increased, generating new outbreaks of incident. It seems that at first glance this strategy has increased the problems rather than lessen them,” said INDH counsellor Yerko Ljubetic.
The images of the fire at the Alameda Art Center:

At about 7:45 p.m. and no injured people were reported.

Original source in Spanish

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