[ad_1]
Four subjects were arrested this Wednesday for carrying compressed air weapons and pepper spray, in the center of Santiago.
According to witnesses, they attacked protesters who participated, at the height of the Paseo Ahumada con Moneda, in a rally in favor of the detainees after the social outbreak, whom some consider as “political prisoners.”
The individuals were arrested by the Carabineros and taken to the First Police Station of Santiago. They will be available to the Public Ministry.
“In the afternoon and In the framework of a demonstration on Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins with Ahumada, Carabineros in their preventive role detects and detains a person carrying a weapon, later verifying that it was a compressed air pistol and that it fired rubber pellets of approximately 8 millimeters, which was verified by means of a consultancy from an armory in the sector “, detailed the Captain Marcos Reyes, deputy commissioner.
He added that, “in the same way, Three other people were arrested, one of whom was carrying a pepper spray gun.“.
Those attending the call have denounced on social networks that the subject who carried the compressed air pistol was Roberto Belmar, Sebastián Izquierdo’s right-hand man in the far-right group “La Vanguardia” and “Capitalismo Revolucionario”, both already formalized by less serious injuries and threats perpetrated in “Rejection” marches in February and March.
In today’s protest, about twenty people participated, moments in which the subjects arrived, and one of them He drew the gun and fired, while his companions poured pepper spray, according to the account of the protesters.
Based on this information, a fight broke out. Despite this, no attendants to the rally were injured, according to preliminary information.
