translated from Spanish: IACHR reiterates comments from its visit to Chile and calls on authorities to investigate “promptly and diligently” the death of Cristián Valdebenito

This Saturday was confirmed the death of Christian Valdebenito, the 48-year-old man who on Friday night entered the Central Posta after suffering a serious head injury that would have been the result of a lacri bomb is just around the Plaza de la Dignidad.
According to the medical side, the man suffered severe head trauma during recorded incidents amid the demonstrations in Santiago. The National Institute of Human Rights reported, for its part, that “as referred to by the Samu who transferred him to the Posta, and the witness account, would have been a tear-gas bomb impact, all of which is part of the prosecution’s investigation.” In the face of the facts reported on Sunday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regretted what happened and reiterated the remarks after his visit in loco in Chile, where he condened the actions of Carabineros.
The international body expressed its solidarity with relatives and close to Valdebenito, and called on the authorities “to promptly and diligently investigate this event and punish those who are responsible”.
“The IACHR warned of the frequent indiscriminate effect of less lethal weapons in the context of protests, such as tear- Its use should be discouraged, due to the impossibility of controlling the direction of its impact,” they noted from the IACHR via Twitter.
 

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