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A string of acts of violence they have registered in The Araucanía in the last hours, with a bullet attack on Carabineros, the burning of an evangelical church, added to the burning of vehicles on Route 5 and machinery in forestry operations.
The series of attacks coincide with the commemoration of the crime of the Mapuche community member Camilo Catrillanca, happened two years ago.
The first of the events was recorded on Friday night in the Route 5 South, in the catwalk sector of the Chamichaco sector, in the commune of Ercilla, where a vehicle was set on fire.
The incident forced the interruption of traffic in both directions for several hours, because when the police arrived in the sector, they were attacked with bullets.
Then, in the early hours of Saturday, two temples were burned. It was the evangelical church Alianza Cristiana located in the interior of Victoria, while in the town of Púa, Firefighters answered a fire call in the El Salto church.
After five in the morning, in the Santa Victoria property at kilometer 10 on the Collipulli route to the Huapitrío sector, machines that carried out forestry tasks, belonging to the Sefomec company, of the Collipullense businessman Juan Navarrete, were set on fire.
Around noon, meanwhile, at least four trucks were burned on the Victoria-Traiguén route, in the Quichamahuida intersection sector. In the vicinity of the event, a canvas was found attributing the attack to the Mapuche resistance and remembering Camilo Catrillanca, two years after his death.
The Governor of Malleco, Juan Carlos Beltrán, After acknowledging the string of acts of violence, he asserted that they do not help solve problems.
In the palace of La Moneda, the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, He also referred to the sensitivity of this date.
The acts of violence occur two years after the murder of the Mapuche community member Camilo Catrillanca, which is being remembered by his family and numerous communities this weekend, as his father Marcelo Catrillanca specified.
On the morning of this Saturday a large caravan of community members walking, on horseback and motorized vehicles went to Route 5 to demonstrate and demand justice for the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, which resulted in the total suspension of traffic on Route 5 between Collipulli and Victoria.
However, at the height of Ercilla, Carabineros personnel had to intervene, registering a series of clashes.
Even the Police Sub-station located on Ruta 5 Sur near the Ercilla commune, was attacked with bullets by a score of hooded men, in a fact that was registered by a police drone.
For this Sunday, the communities plan to visit the house that Camilo Catrillanca was building at the time of his death, to later move to the Temucuicui community cemetery where a Mapuche religious ceremony will take place.
Let us remember that in Angol, from Monday to Thursday, without access to the family or the media, the oral trial against 7 police officers and a lawyer, accused of the crime of the Mapuche community member, who is in the stage of presentation of the evidence of the Prosecutor’s Office.
In Collipulli meanwhile, this Saturday the funeral of Pablo Burgos Bustos, a 76-year-old farmer, from the Surco y Semilla place on the road to the Curaco sector, was held, who was murdered at his home early Thursday morning.
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