translated from Spanish: Two carabinieri were formalized for covering up official who shot two children in Pudahuel

Two carabinieri were formalized by the event on 20 October last year, accused of covering up proceedings in which a sub-lieutenant of carabinieri fired at a particular vehicle injuring a 9-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, the last being seriously injured. According to the information gathered, the victims were travelling in a car along Claudio Arrau Street in Pudahuel commune, while looting took place nearby. Stopping at a red light at the intersection with Lieutenant Cruz Avenue, a group of motorized carabinieri approached the car. In this way, Lieutenant D.B.G. who – after giving the order to the driver to stop the vehicle and find no answer – drew his weapon by shooting the 9-year-old girl (K.U.B) in the arm; in the abdomen and the 10-year-old (M.B.G.), who was left in serious condition, as well as injuring the 18-year-old driver (M.M.E.) in the arm. According to the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), the carabinieri tried to hide what happened, so they would have forged public instruments, in which they attributed the driver of the vehicle an attempted hit-and-run and destroyed one of the police bikes. As reported by Radio Biobio both a major of carabinieri, identified by the initials J.D.S., and Corporal A.A.G., were formalized before the First Guarantee Court of Santiago: the first for the crime of cover-up of foiled homicide and illegitimate prems; and the second, for this latest crime. Both were the accomplices of Lieutenant D.B.G. who fired on the car in which an adult and six minors were moving. The INDH stated that the police officers finally, in order not to be apparent what happened, would have falsified public instruments, in which they attributed an attempt to run over the vehicle, so they destroyed one of the bikes used in the proceeding, and made a record with fallacious data and a fake police part, which resulted in the Public Prosecutor’s Office formalizing three of the older victims who were also on board the car , for the offences of theft instead of non-inhabited and an attack on authority. The justice has already determined that D.B.G., as the perpetrator of the shooting, was placed on remand, as was Major J.D.S., who is also charged with the crime of obstruction of the investigation. In this process, five carabinieri have been formalized to date

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