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Almost seven months after the start of the pandemic in Chile, Carabineros has made 281,176 arrests for violations of health regulations, of which more than 6,300 correspond to people who were caught not complying with the measures when they were infected with coronavirus and had to keep isolation.
Specific, 6,335 of apprehensions, According to the analysis of the Department of Criminal Analysis of the institution, they were under the figure of “knowingly spread contagion” of having Covid-19, and in 80 percent of those cases were men, published this Monday Third.
Of the total arrests, 219,885 were for violating quarantine that has ruled in the communes, 46,764 for not complying with the curfew and 8,773 for “other crimes against public health.”
Others 48 detention procedures were applied against employers who forced workers to violate confinement, a sanction that was added to article 318 of the Penal Code in the recent law enacted last June that toughens penalties against sanitary offenders; while 18 people were apprehended for “spreading germs to cause disease.”
Prosecutor’s Office ensures not to formalize those who go out in search of sustenance
In this framework, the Public Ministry estimated at 283,048 those accused of crimes against public health that they received between March 1 and September 4.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office stated in the morning that does not proceed to formalize those who “go out in search of sustenance, those who need to peacefully express their demands and needs, and / or those who must leave their home to report a crime. “
