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The national director of Order and Security of the Carabineros, Inspector General Esteban Díaz, referred this Tuesday to the procedure where an assailant was killed after shots fired by a uniformed man.
The situation occurred yesterday morning in a Copec de Vitacura service center, where a police officer arrived, the minister’s escort Ignacio Briones, aboard a tax car with its driver.
Their final destination was to go to the home of the Secretary of State to take him to his place of work, but they stopped at the service station for a few minutes to buy.
While the mobile was without occupants, another car positioned next to it and one of its occupants got out to break a window and steal a backpack. When the individuals left the place, the uniformed fired 13 shots against him to repel the crime, which caused the death of one of the four assailants.
According to the PDI, the uniformed man declared that he used his service weapon after being threatened with a firearm, which is not seen in a video of a security camera that captured how the robbery occurred.
Due to this last point, General Díaz indicated that “all procedures are evaluated”And that it is“ a procedure that is being investigated by the Public Ministry and the Investigative Police of Chile ”.
But nevertheless, confirmed that the version of Briones’ bodyguard is that he was threatened with a weapon and for that reason he responded with shots.
“According to what the Carabineros official indicates, was targeted with one of these weapons and he repelled the attack, “he said.
Along with this, he pointed out that “when one starts an investigation, there are always several hypotheses and in this investigation, one of them is that the subjects carried weapons ”.
Finally, he said he did not know what type of weapon the individuals were carrying.
For his part, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, pointed out that in Congress there is a draft of police protection statute, which establishes how officials should be criminally treated when they are. doing his duty
He added that currently said item is regulated in the Military Justice CodeLegislation that he dismissed as old, which is why he believes it is relevant to advance to “modern and clear legislation that clearly establishes what are the powers and limitations that the police have.”
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