Attack on the police station in Puente Alto: about a hundred protesters threw blunt and incendiary objects



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A hundred people yesterday attacked the 20th Puente Alto Police Station, which they threw incendiary elements, chemical powder, paint bombs and blunt elements., “Like iron, sticks, stones and rubble,” according to the uniformed police, for which five individuals were arrested, three of them minors.

Carabineros reported that “the protesters were participating in a march for approval, at the Metro station Protectora de la Infancia.” According to the police version, “the fire extinguishers thrown by the subjects were stolen from collective locomotion buses at the intersection of Ernesto Alvear street and Avenida Concha y Toro”. The attack damaged the roof and walls of the 20th Police Station, as well as a police vehicle.

“One hundred people”

Captain Miguel Lizama, from the Cordillera prefecture, stated that “A group of 100 people, after participating in a march, went to the front of the 20th Carabineros Police Station in Puente Alto where they threw blunt and incendiary objects at the personnel, for which the Public Order Control acted to dissolve the demonstration, leaving two adults arrested for the crime of public disorder, as well as three minors, for opposing the action of the authority ”.

The five detainees They were at the disposal of the Puente Alto Guarantee Court for the first control of detention.



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