translated from Spanish: Interior confirmed arrest of three suspects for carabinieri murder in Collipulli

Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado confirmed the arrest of three suspected crime suspects of Carabineros’ first sergeant, Francisco Benavides, who yesterday was shot in the chest in Collipulli commune, while taking part in clearing routes that had been cut off. In sayings to radio Bío Bío, Delgado assured that the suspects will go to detention control during this day.” They are people who have been arrested in the vicinity of the place, one of them, in fact, at the time of detention had a chainsaw and had some pellet wounds, which realizes that he is indeed a person who was surely in the radius of action at the time,” spstuvo the interior holder.Delgado added that “the other two detainees are being credited with positioning in the place and all the evidence that is relevant to that , and which we trust, operate as it should operate.”  Delgado addressed the attacks that occur in the macrozone against carabinieri and stated that “you have to be very clear about this: here is a modus operandi, a background strategy that we have already seen repeatedly here in the southern macrozone: roads are blocked, for Cop staff from Carabineros to arrive to clear the place and, when they are working on clearing , are cowardly attacked by the ambush method.” After confirming the detention of people who might be involved in the events, he noted that “beyond whether or not people are involved in the murder itself, in the cowardly shooting, because that has to be determined by the investigation, there are people who participated in the configuration of the barricades, and we are asking that those people also respond to , for example, the Barricade Act, and the mistreatment of work to Carabineros”.

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