Carabineros took stock of the incidents that occurred in parallel to the peaceful demonstrations, on the day of commemoration of the victims of the dictatorship after the coup d’état of 1973, in the communes of Santiago and Recoleta.
According to General Carlos González Gallegos, Chief of the Santiago West Zone, there are “two carabineros injured from the attack on one of the water tanks,” adding that about eight premises were looted and are being registered, in addition to “two arrested for the throwing of incendiary objects at the Carabineros de Chile and one arrested by anti-barricade law.”
The events were condemned by President Gabriel Boric, who said that “if we want to move forward it has to be in peace and without violence.”
The excesses occurred in the middle of the traditional pilgrimage to the General Cemetery convened by different groups, 49 years after the Coup. After its passage, in the Alameda and in the vicinity of Recoleta, there were incidents between Carabineros and hooded, so traffic was suspended and some metro stations closed.
“Democracy is built with dialogue, respecting those who think differently, and never with violence. I wish all those who vindicated this day understood it and we all understood it as a country. If we want to move forward, and I have no doubt that it is the will of the great and overwhelming majority of Chileans, it must be in peace and without violence; that is what we are going to do from the Government,” the president said from La Moneda.
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