translated from Spanish: Older adult who was assaulted by Carabineros: “I tried to defend myself but it was impossible to avoid it”

This day went viral a video in which an adult over the age of 69 is brutally assaulted by Carabineros officials in the vicinity of Plaza Italia.The events would have happened yesterday Sunday, as he accompanied his daughters to the march in co Nmemoprayer for International Women’s Day and the record shows how this person was beaten by Carabinieri Special Forces, even though there were women around him trying to stop the beating. The 69-year-old, Patricio Bao, spoke to the channel for 24 hours and stated that “I find the violence that fell upon me unnecessary and Carabineros taught right-handed and sinister, which I tried to defend myself but it was impossible to avoid.” Demanding my rights does not necessarily imply violence on my part. Carabineros acts in an inordinate manner, without any judgment against a senior,” he added to the same medium. Also, Bao stated that “they do not have a formal criterion or someone to indicate that the procedure they are employing is wrong. Having brutally beaten me on the ground, I tried to incorporate them continued to insist and there was no need to continue to assault me.” The man also detailed that he then went to see injuries, where he realized that he was left with wounds where they had to perform ten points on their heads and four in the eyelid.

Original source in Spanish