translated from Spanish: Prosecutor’s office confirmed that bullet that caused the death of a child in Maipú was fired by a carabinieri

During this day, the Western Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the bullet that caused the death of a six-year-old boy in the commune of Maipú was fired by an official from Carabineros.It should be remembered that the child died sunday night while moving with his mother in a vehicle when a police operation occurred. Prosecutor Sergio Moya, of the Western Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, recounted that “on the 28th, at approximately 22:27 hours, two Carabineros officials staffed by the 25th Maipú Police Station of the IAPA, conducted a scheduled crime prevention patrol, in a sector focused on Avenida Segunda Transversal with Santa Amanda due to repeated thefts with violence and intimidation that were recorded in the sector.” In these circumstances, they encountered the flagrant commission of an intimidated robbery offence, namely a ‘lock-up’, in which five armed subjects fought against a 47-year-old woman moving in a vehicle. Two of them proceeded to break one of the glass and target the victim while the other three subjects waited at the site, targeting passers-by and other drivers circulating in the sector,” the persecutor added. In response, Moya also detailed that they managed to subtract the victim’s vehicle and “Carabineros’ tank is positioned in the vicinity of that assault and immediately the assailants proceeded to fire against Carabineros with pistols, This fire was repelled by the carabinieri, who made use of their service weapons, which were duly registered (…) The oldest official, 24 years of service, a sergeant, proceeded to fire against the two vehicles in which the two subjects were moving fleeing the site.” In the moments of this confrontation, and in the vicinity of the site, the car in which the under-six-year-old I.Y.B.A. was stationed in front of Carabineros’ vehicle was parked in front of Carabineros’ vehicle, and one of the shots fired by The Sergeant of Carabineros passed through the two vehicles that were repelled in police action and hit the left rear door , entering the inside of the cabin and staying in the child’s chest, ballistic injury that caused him death,” the persecutor said. Finally, he argued that “the carabinieri fired four times: in three of them he manages to hit the vehicles of the assailants and the fourth was the one that entered the vehicle in which the child was moving. After entering through his arm, he stayed in his chest and caused him to die as a result of the severity of his injuries. All of this is scientifically established.”

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