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A series of shootings, including the one that left a fatal victim and four wounded in Maipú, have caused clashes between political actors in the country, including President Piñera, Congress and mayors, who question the lack of prevention of these types of events and of greater effective penalties for these crimes.
In an activity held this Wednesday afternoon, the President Sebastián Piñera announced a law to criminalize illicit associations, stressing that “our Government is fully and absolutely committed to bringing more tranquility, more peace, more security to all Chilean homes and families, but I also want to tell Congress and I have asked it many times, but this time I want to ask, What else needs to happen for Congress to rush the security agenda once and for all?, who has been in Congress for years. “
“We need, as much as the air we breathe, better tools, better instruments to fight crime, drug trafficking and organized crime,” he added.
From Congress, Senator Jose Miguel Insulza (PS) replied that “They owe the Gun Law And in second place, this is a matter of intelligence and police investigation. It is not an issue that if we give a person 25 or 30 more years in prison, that is not the point, the point is that we do not know where the weapons come from. “
“The point is that drug traffickers do what they want, the point is that criminals go free when they shouldn’t go out, that’s the point. Please, let’s not make politics out of this, it is very dramatic and very terrible. The country is full of weapons and we continue to do politics with that, please, “he said.
At the municipal level, the mayor of Puente Alto, German Codina (RN) stated that “we have not seen concrete progress In many of the things that interest us, they can be solved quickly. Along with distributing the police force more equitably among the communes, in some spaces it is felt that the rule of law is almost non-existent. “
The mayor of La Pintana, Claudia pizarro (DC), commented that “we are getting used to this being a media event and nothing being done. What are we waiting for? People care about those things, the marking of ammunitionLet’s find this person who shot. I don’t care if it’s a reckoning, they are people. “
Meanwhile, the analyst and academic of the Usach, Lucia Dammert, He stated that “it is very easy to get rid of the problem with a matter of laws, I think that here what we need is other types of actions as well. better levels of control in arms trafficking issues, better levels of police intelligence to confront the strongest organized groups, limitation of the sale of ammunition, a better registry of the weapons system, a single registry that includes the weapons of the military and the police “.
Tense meeting in Maipú
During the morning, the mayor of Maipú, Cathy Barriga (Ind), held a tense meeting with a group of authorities such as the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado and the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Katherine Martorell.
After the meeting, the communal authority stated that this situation “has been dragging on for quite some time, the difference is that it was in a public place, busy, in broad daylight and It is shocking that everyone’s safety is violated in an incident like this and that is why today there is a table, which I am sure is going to be planned, decisions were made and that it is permanent. “
“When this kind of thing happens, everything is activated, but we have to constantly activate ourselves and for that we must come together and plan, and this is the result that begins today from this work table that we hope will deliver the necessary security to our community, “he added.
Along with this, a new hypothesis of the event was released, which involves members of a criminal gang from Villa San Luis in the commune, who have already starred in similar incidents on previous occasions.
Geraldina, the victim’s sister, said that “we were walking and we felt a wind, like a strange gust, because all the people began to shout ‘shooting, shooting’ and I tell my sister ‘let’s get on the ground’, she tells me that she got shot. We threw ourselves on the ground and I see that it has a hole and from there my sister did not react, she just stayed there. We took her to the post in a van and she died. “
From the Hospital El Carmen de Maipú they confirmed the admission of four injured patients to the site, two of whom are in serious condition after being operated on.
