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After the Government shared the Carabineros version of the burning of two of their vehicles and a subsequent armed confrontation in Contulmo this Tuesday, for which a “highly organized group” would be responsible, a local community member and a witness to what happened gave a different account of the event.
Mario del Pozo, who was present at the beginning of the uniformed conflict in the Antonio Leviqueo community, pointed out to Regions Cooperative that the troops approached their group when they were going fishing: “they told us they were looking for firewoodWe told them that no wood was given. They were not identified. “
Later, they would have gotten out of their truck, “They draw their pistols and tell us it was an assault. They threw my son to the ground, they put their knee to his neck, they broke his head with a blow to the ground, they beat me and another community member. I managed to tear myself away, they started shooting me in the back, I ran to ask for help; later they identified themselves as Carabineros. “
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“I open the door to one of them, I grabbed him by the chest to tell him what he was doing, there the four of them get out and start shooting, kicks, punches, without any provocation,” said the community member, and reiterated that “After they shot, they hit us, the broom was left, they just said they were CarabinerosThey never identified themselves, according to them they were looking for firewood and they were workers. “
Del Pozo discredited what Víctor Pérez narrated this afternoon, assuring that “at no time do we have firearms, less rifles as the Minister of the Interior is talking about, it wasn’t like that, we don’t have Molotov cocktails. We defended ourselves with pure güiñes. They drew weapons and went to kill. “
“We are a peaceful community, we are always for dialogue, but what happened today … They humiliated us, they shot us, then the community reacted,” he concluded.
The version of Del Pozo coincides with that of the community werkén, Carolina Painemil, who pointed out that on the way to fish, this group came across a van that had its patents covered, so they asked the drivers what they were doing there, leading to the altercation described by the witness.
