translated from Spanish: Prosecutor’s office said there is no record of linking the three detainees to the crime of The Sergeant of Carabineros

Two of the defendants were left with national roots, while the third subject was extended to the arrest until Wednesday to have the result of proceedings that are ongoing such as the review of images of the Videos of Carabineros.In detail, the Public Prosecutor’s Office formalized G.P. for violation of article 268 of the Penal Code (interruption of the free movement of persons or vehicles on public roads through violence or intimidation) , concealment of identity and mistreatment of work to Carabineros and M.A. also imputed it by article 268 and also by attack on authority. It was subject to the national rooting measure. The three, so far, have no links to the decess of the uniform, according to the prosecution’s first record, so today they were required for other crimes. According to the report of the Prosecutor’s Office of La Araucanía all three were apprehended in the same sector, But an hour after the fact, one of them, J.L., according to the police side, was in a group of people who also shot at carabinieri, but not sergeant Francisco Benavides.Because of this situation, they point out that within 24 hours of the crime having occurred there is still no record for linking them to the decessing of the uniform. Prosecutor Bustos stated that “objectively to this day, with respect to these people there is no link in relation to the fact investigated, this is murder. However, we must remember that it is an investigation that is just beginning, it does not have 24 hours since the occurrence of the fact.” According to the first steps that were decreed yesterday it could be determined that several subjects, until now unknown, cut off the route R35 that joins Collipulli with St. Andrew. As a result of this fact Carabineros attends to clear it, and in the return of this mission are expected by several subjects on a mound who fired short-range shots which brought the death of the official,” he said. In this line, the persecutor noted that “on the basis of witness statements that met the official who was the victim of this fact, we can infer that this is an ambush, at this point in the investigation, given the distance this shot was made, the location and the fact that it came back from the operative.” Labocar de Carabineros conducted preliminary expertise and determined that “the shots were fired at a distance of 10 and 15 meters”.

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