translated from Spanish: Héctor Llaitúl: “I don’t know why the Carabineros took it for granted that he was my son”

Hector Llaitul, leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), ruled out that the comunero killed in a confrontation with the Carabineros in Carahue was his son. As he told Interference, he went to recognize the body with Ernesto Llaitul’s partner. “We were assuming it was my son, but it wasn’t. What happens is that the bodies were similar to the deceased that is Pablo Marchan, a weichafe of the CAM and as he got bullets in the face had been deformed a little, maybe that confused the Carabineros or the prosecutor, I have no idea or there would be some intentionality in saying that it was my son , but it’s not him.” With elló, he added that “he was stuck in a place of difficult access, in a forestry work, we do not understand the reason for such a damn confusion.” I do not know why the Carabineros assumed that it was my son and as that information began to circulate, we also assumed it, but when we saw the body I saw that it was not my son, it was not Ernesto. There is a terrible morbid thing about my son being killed,” he added. Llaitúl reiterated that they made a series of efforts to “be able to visit the body to identify it. We went and he had his face deformed by the shots or maybe he was shot afterwards, we don’t know.”

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