The Prosecutor’s Office formalized and left in preventive detention the five subjects who were arrested after the arson attacks carried out last Tuesday in Lautaro and Cholchol, region of La Araucanía.
In the operation carried out by personnel of the Carabineros, the Investigative Police and the Army, Pelentaro Llaitul Pezoa (19 years old), youngest son of the leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Héctor Llaitul, who is currently also in preventive detention for the crimes of theft of wood, usurpation and attack against authority, was arrested.
In addition to Llaitul’s son, the Prosecutor’s Office formalized Luis Menares Chañilao, Luis Fuenzalida Eneros, Jorge Caniupil Coña and Juan Carlos Mardones Sáez for the crimes of arson, repeated arson, qualified robbery with retention, robbery with intimidation, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition and for unjustified shooting.
🔴 @FISCALIA_IX requested preventive detention for Pelentaro Llaitul and 4 other people arrested for @CarabAraucania after arson attacks perpetrated on Tuesday in Lautaro and Chol Chol. They were formalized for repeated arson, theft with retention and other crimes pic.twitter.com/xzmxR60gRU
— Prosecutor’s Office Araucanía (@FISCALIA_IX) November 25, 2022
It should be noted that the hearing was interrupted and postponed after the accused demanded to appear in person. In fact, in the detention control hearing on Wednesday, the judge of the Lautaro court, Eduardo Pérez, had given rise to the instance in a mixed way, with the presence of the arrested and their defenses in the room and the other interveners in a telematic way, La Tercera reported.
However, after the CAM called for demonstrations for Llaitul’s son, the magistrate decided to reverse his decision for security reasons.
“If what we request (to be in person) is not complied with, we will leave. We are going to withdraw from the hearing until it is not face-to-face,” said one of the defendants defiantly towards Pérez, who stressed that “the court will not be subject to pressure.”
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