translated from Spanish: Government instructed Carabineros to separate an official who participated in the mapocho River as a young man

From the Government lamented the events that occurred yesterday, where a young man fell to the Mapocho River after a confusing incident with Carabineros in the context of a demonstration in Plaza ItaliaThe Interior Minister, Victor Pérez, argued that “it is a police procedure at a time of violence, it is regrettable that it has occurred. We are working to keep these facts from happening.” He added that “we mean that absolutely different, new protocols were used in this police procedure. Microphone where he warns that they are going to act, they ask that people withdraw, it is unfortunate, that a young man gets hurt in a demonstration is a regrettable fact. It’s a police procedure.” In addition, the Government instructed Carabineros to separate an official who participated in the fall of a young person to the Mapocho River The Secretary of State, noted that they communicated with the affected person’s family and that he “rejects and condemns all kinds of violence, whatever its origin or motivation”. For his part, the mayor of Santiago, Felipe Alessandri, reported that “last night we handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the videos of our camera headquarters, to contribute to the early clarification of what happened on Puente Pio Nono”. In addition, the communal chief assured that “we condemn violence, wherever it comes from”, following questions to the uniformed police for what was recorded yesterday. It should be remembered that Carabineros reported that the official involved in the fact is fully identified and that the background was made available to the prosecution. For their part, opposition parties condemned what happened, creating the government to ask uniformed police general Mario Rozas to resign.

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