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In a spokesperson in La Moneda, the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Víctor Pérez, referred to the incidents reported this Sunday during the series of demonstrations that were held to commemorate the first anniversary of the social outbreak of October 18, 2019.
This after the meeting held at the seat of government headed by President Sebastián Piñera and in which, in addition to Minister Pérez, the Minister of Defense, Mario Desbordes, the head of the Segegob, Jaime Bellolio, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, and the general director of the Carabineros, Mario Rozas. The President had moved during the afternoon from his residence.
Pérez referred to the role of the head of state in the conference and stated that “The President is not silent, the President is directing the destinies of the country, the President was with us working and we gave him an account of everything that was being done during the day and we received the instructions he gave us, therefore he has been extraordinarily present and he will speak at the time he deems appropriate ”.
In Plaza Baquedano, a regular meeting point for protesters, about 25 thousand people gathered, according to information from the Carabineros. The convocation was carried out in a peaceful manner, however, in the surroundings there were several sources of clashes between personnel from the Police Department of Public Order Control and hooded individuals.
The action of one of these groups generated a fire in the Parish of La Asunción, in Vicuña Mackenna. The dome of the temple collapsed and ended up collapsing due to the action of the flames. Before, the Carabineros church had been attacked.
“We reiterate a call for all citizens to condemn these events. Burning churches, burning religious sites is an expression of brutality, it is an expression that we must strongly condemn “, Minister Pérez pointed out.
“We are going to confront violence with the weapons that the law has, such as the actions of the Carabineros and the Investigative Police “added the authority.
The minister maintained that “Those who carry out these acts of violence, without a doubt, do not want Chileans to solve our problems through democratic channels. They want to harm, they want to leave people unemployed, they want to leave entrepreneurs without their working capital, they want to cause fear and we are facing them and we are protecting Chileans ”.
