“It’s not the way”: Government repudiates use of weapon by the owner of the former German Fountain that repelled attack on his premises

After a new “Friday of demonstrations” in the sector of Plaza Baquedano; Also known as Plaza de la Dignidad, the renowned restaurant Antigua Fuente -former Fuente Alemana- was attacked by a group of strangers, which provoked the response with a compressed air weapon from the owner of the premises.
The Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, pointed to those who demonstrate for reasons such as the release of the prisoners of the explosion and told Meganoticias that “there is a very tense relationship between the tenants and the most violent demonstrators. (…). These demonstrators who are obviously also criminals themselves are the toughest that are left of these massive demonstrations of the social outbreak.”
In any case, the Secretary of State assured that these violentists cannot be compared with the people who marched peacefully during the social outbreak.
Minister Delgado added that what happened is “a harassment that took place last week against the owner of this fountain, Mr. (Carlo) Siri, where he was brutally attacked. And this harassment continued yesterday. This relationship is very tense now.”
“Obviously we as a government would never want violent people attacking, nor the response, obviously with a compressed air weapon. That shouldn’t be the way,” Delgado said.
And he said that the owner of the Old Fountain was asked to testify and that the weapon was confiscated to be the subject of analysis in a police investigation by injured protesters.

“We have no history of anyone arriving at any care center, right? Or some specific complaint. So we have to look at the investigation well, but we are going to put a special and specific safeguard in that area,” said Minister Delgado.
The head of the Interior and Public Security also said that the attack on the former German Source is due to statements issued by the owner regarding the social outbreak and the protesters.
“I think it is not the path of either side, but we must also understand that here there is a specific harassment, because there are statements by this person precisely against the demonstrators,” the Interior Minister concluded.

Original source in Spanish

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