translated from Spanish: Deputy UDI seeks police to use UZI subametralladoras

Deputy Alvaro Carter (UDI) announced that together with requesting that the bill sanctioning the marketing and use of fireworks be given the utmost urgency, will present a legal initiative to allow the use of UZI subametralladoras to the police. For Carter, “fireworks are transforming into underworld entertaining in Chile, as it is enough to see how they were used during Christmas Eve, where in various populations in Chile, there was simply a real pyrotechnic festival.” In Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Concon among others, was also not far removed from the reality that was lived in Santiago during Christmas Eve, so this problem of fireworks has already become something that exceeded the Metropolitan Region and was exported,” he added. The legislator explained that “the underworld can be considered to be using this technique as a way of marking territory and almost as a demonstration of power in populations. And all this is linked to the shootings, sicarios, funerals of narcos and a series of events that during this pandemic have been increased exponentially.” That is why we are going to request that the bill submitted by the Government be given the utmost urgency and that it seeks to drastically sanction the marketing and use of fireworks,” he said. He also reported that “we will present a series of indications that allow police officers to have Armed Forces resources such as drones and military intelligence, among others, to seek to put a real brake on this ritual that means in the world of drug trafficking the issue of fireworks.” Carter also reported that “we will introduce another bill so that once and for all real weaponry is equipped with our cops. It cannot be that when they must enter various populations of Chile to deal with criminals and narcos, they are at a complete disadvantage in terms of weapons.” Many times Staff of Carabineros and the POI carry simple pistols versus weaponry of war used by drug traffickers. That’s why we’ll look for them to at least be able to use UZI subametralladoras, which is an urban combat weapon so they can defend themselves against attacks,” said Chile’s PARLIAMENTarian Vamos.” I push the Broad Front and the PC once and for all to side with people and not to get into the side of these kinds of initiatives, because we know that they are usually on the side of criminals and violentists, but hopefully they will ever put themselves in the place of people who suffer in these kinds of situations” Sentenced.

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