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Various reactions have caused in social networks the fall of a child under 16 years of age to the bed of Mapocho River, in the midst of demonstrations and riots that occurred during the afternoon of this Friday in the vicinity of Plaza Baquedano.
Product of the fact, which happened at the intersection of Pío Nono with Saint Mary, a rescue operation led by Firefighters was generated. The minor was transferred in the first instance to the former Central Post Office and then transferred to the Santa María Clinic, where he is stable.
In images obtained by the Telesur channel, which circulated through social networks, a police picket is seen proceeding in the area and a uniformed man advancing towards the protester, who later falls over the railing towards the river.
To Santa Maria Clinic the director of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), Sergio Micco, together with a team from the agency, to find out the minor’s health status and collect testimonies of what happened.
“We were with his mother, we were with the young people who participated in the demonstration and they point out that the Carabineros de Chile participated in the event. We are collecting all the information and evaluating what legal actions to present, ”said the head of the entity.
For its part, Ombudsman for Children announced the filing of a complaint for attempted murder “In front of the records that show how a Carabineros official throws an adolescent into the bed of the Mapocho River.”
After what happened, Carabineros denied that the young man rushed as a result of the action of police personnel, that records have been delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office for the investigation of the fact Furthermore, the institution specifically referred to the viralized registry.
“I want to emphasize very strongly a video that goes through social networks where they say that the police allegedly threw a minor into the bed of the Mapocho river. I want to flatly deny this type of situation. For no reason did the Carabineros throw this person into the river bed. There are images that have already been made available to the Prosecutor’s Office, which will be in charge of investigating this fact, ”said Lieutenant Colonel Rodrigo Soto, from the Santiago Oriente Prefecture.
“There are still subjects who do not know with what intention they are going to cause this type of situation, not only to cause destruction, to cause damage, but also the most serious thing about this, is that they invent situations taking advantage of social networks, where I insist, Carabineros will never want to attack a person, they will never want to do such a serious thing, throwing a person into the river bed makes no sense, ”the officer stressed.
Later, the police institution released a new statement from Lieutenant Colonel Rodrigo Soto on the fact, where it indicates that “what the Carabineros denied and completely refutes again, is that this person has been taken by the feet or that he has been thrown into the river by a jet from the water-launching car as invented by witnesses on social networks.
He also added that there is a video that shows that this “unfortunate accident” occurred “in an intense context of detention of people who caused disorder and that now the Prosecutor’s Office must evaluate with all the information available to them.”
The officer emphasized that “the events occurred in the context of a procedure with incidents” and reported that the policeman who appears in the video is “clearly identified.”
