[Minuto a Minuto] General Rozas and Minister Pérez explain Friday’s police operation in Baquedano Square

19:40 –

| [Video] In #LaSerena a demonstration ended with incidents on Route 5 #CooperativaRegiones

19:39 –

| [Video] Barricades are registered in #Iquique in Héroes de la Concepción #CooperativaRegiones

19:33 –

| Minister Pérez: We deeply regret what happened at the Pío Nono Bridge. I wish it hadn’t happened, and it won’t happen again. The Government is against violence and against the transgression of human rights #CooperativaEnCasa

19:32 –

| Deputy Andrea Parra (PPD) for the murder of a worker in Collipulli: How many more deaths are we going to be able to bear? Radicalization is killing us. It is not just a problem of public order, it is a political problem #CooperativaEnCasa

19:32 –

| In Rancagua, protesters move through the center of the city #CooperativaRegiones

19:31 –

| There are also incidents in Iquique and Antofagasta #CooperativaEnCasa

19:23 –

| The demonstration continues in Plaza Baquedano with various traffic cuts in the #CooperativaEnCasa sector (PHOTO: ATON)

19:23 –

| Deputy Osvaldo Urrutia (UDI): “I have seen other videos, I have heard the testimony of a protester, who tells how the events occurred. Clearly the police did not push him; there could have been imprudence, but there was no fraud” #CooperativaEnCasa

19:18 –

| Incidents are recorded in Quilpué after a protest that moved through the city center #CooperativaEnCasa

19:15 –

| Deputy Luis Pardo (RN) questions that “the idea is being installed that the young man was intentionally thrown into the river,” an idea that -in his opinion- “is probably going to be false” in the judicial process #CooperativaEnCasa

19:09 –

| Deputy Tomás Hirsch: Why the Carabineros once again gives false statements trying to hide the human rights violations committed by #CooperativaEnCasa

19:04 –

| Deputy Maite Orsini to General Mario Rozas: Don’t you consider it necessary to resign? The Carabineros crisis, although it has been brewing for decades, has exploded in his face, and he has not been able to direct the Carabineros correctly #CooperativaEnCasa

19:00 –

| Deputy Carmen Hertz (PC) is “stupefied” with the version delivered by the Carabineros, and calls on the Government to act with “speed and truth” for investigation #CooperativaEnCasa

18:58 –

| Deputy Andrea Parra (PPD): We have been talking about reform to the Carabineros for years, but we never see it. You have to do it now, and deep, not makeup. And that the Ministry supervise and let it be audited, and behave at the height #CooperativaEnCasa

18:55 –

| Deputy Andrea Parra (PPD): I am concerned not only about what happened with the Carabineros on the Pío Nono bridge, but also because we have seen situations like this in a systematic way #CooperativaEnCasa

18:53 –

| Deputy Raúl Leiva (PS) assures that the Carabineros version is “an ‘ex post’ construction to justify something completely unjustifiable”

18:51 –

| Deputy Raúl Leiva (PS) criticizes the lack of “self-criticism” of General Rozas and Minister Pérez for “not recognizing and questioning the circumstances” of what happened in Puente Pío Nono: The protester did not fall, they pushed him #CooperativaEnCasa

18:48 –

| Deputy Jorge Alessandri (UDI) says that the carabinero “tries to reduce” the young protester on the Pío Nono Bridge, but “not in a suitable place” #CooperativaEnCasa

18:46 –

| Deputy Jorge Alessandri (UDI) questions the NHRI’s version: The young man was pulling away from a policeman so as not to be arrested, because of what had happened before, hitting a police car with an iron and throwing stones #CooperativaEnCasa

18:43 –

| Deputy Calisto criticizes that in the first hours after the event in Puente Pío Nono there was “silence” from the Government and “contradictions” in the versions of the Carabineros: That damages confidence in our police officers #CooperativaEnCasa

18:42 –

| Deputy Miguel Calisto maintains that in the violence of the Carabineros there is individual responsibility of the uniformed men, “but there is also political responsibility” #CooperativaEnCasa

18:34 –

| Deputy Miguel Calisto, president of the Security Commission, in a session on the actions of the Carabineros: Attacking human rights is not part of democracy #CooperativaEnCasa

18:31 –

| Minister Pérez: Let the investigation progress. We appreciate that in less than 24 hours the Prosecutor’s Office took action. And the Carabineros has made available each and every one of the #CooperativaEnCasa

18:22 –

| The Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, joins the session of the Citizen Security Commission

18:17 –

| Carabineros: Personnel was constituted twice in the Santa María Clinic, at 8:30 pm, where one “works gives the identity of the minor”; and later in the morning, when they contact the mother to draw up the delivery certificate for the alleged “detention” procedure.

18:13 –

| Carabineros exhibited an audio to show that they gave notice to Firefighters after the fall of a young man into the Mapocho River, pushed by a uniformed man: in the registry they realize that the emergency operator reported that the firefighters had already been notified and were on their way # CooperativaEnCasa

18:09 –

| In the Commission they present the general director Mario Rozas, accompanied by part of his High Command

18:08 –

| The police explain that public order control tasks are carried out based on a three-phase operational planning: deterrence, containment and clearance

18:07 –

| [AHORA] Carabineros back down and protesters take over Plaza Baquedano #CooperativaEnCasa

18:04 –

| In 3,200 events there were 1.4 million attendees, and in the situations where the Carabineros had to act to control public order, 111 civilians were injured, 26 in the Metropolitan Region; in contrast, 487 injured police officers were carried, 153 in the capital. Everything according to the police report

17:57 –

| In the Citizen Security Commission, Carabineros assures that in 3,200 situations where they had to act to control public order, only 0.0078 percent of the attendees were injured, during the first semester #CooperativaEnCasa

17:54 –

| Due to the protests there are several detours in the center of Santiago

17:44 –

| [Video] Protesters took the Plaza Baquedano

17:20 –

| Later, President Piñera crossed to the office of the Ministry of the Interior in La Moneda

17:11 –

| The general director of the Carabineros, Mario Rozas, held a brief meeting, of approximately half an hour, with the Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, in La Moneda #CooperativaEnCasa

11:36 –

| The appointment is scheduled between 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

11:35 –

| The Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, and the general director of the Carabineros, Mario Rozas, were summoned for this Monday by the Citizen Security Commission of the Lower House and the Senate Human Rights Commission to explain the police procedure in the Pío Nono Bridge.

11:31 –

| The committee of ministers that was held this Monday at the Palacio de La Moneda was marked by an analysis of the case of the adolescent pushed by the police to the Mapocho river.

10:13 –

| [El Primer Café] Rodrigo Ubilla (RN) and calls to the departure of General Rozas: Continuing with the logic of the rotation of the heads of these institutions does not help the profound changes #CooperativaEnCasa

09:56 –

| [El Primer Café] Carlos Ruiz (FA): I have the impression that the time for projects that sought to patch up a situation that does not give more is past. It’s time for a structural reform of the Carabineros #CooperativaEnCasa

09:54 –

| [El Primer Café] Patricio Zapata (DC) and calls for General Rozas to leave: I think the time has come for the President to renew leadership, and it is not a question of imputing criminal or moral responsibility to him #CooperativaEnCasa

09:48 –

| [El Primer Café] Rodrigo Ubilla (RN): The concept of modernizing the Carabineros is well-worn, but because legislators have been discussing it for two years https://www.cooperativa.cl/radioenvivo/ #CooperativaEnCasa

09:29 –

| [El Primer Café] Patricio Zapata (DC): If you run through the streets you should have the peace of mind that the security forces will not throw seven meters at us towards possible injuries #CooperativaEnCasa

09:16 –

| [El Primer Café] Rodrigo Ubilla (RN): Are there specific situations in the Carabineros that could constitute a crime? Yes, but does this tell us that the institution is behind this eventual fraud? No, the investigation is personal #CooperativaEnCasa

09:10 –

| [El Primer Café] Carlos Ruiz (FA) and adolescent thrown into the Mapocho River: What the Government has to prove is whether the Carabineros has control or not https://www.cooperativa.cl/radioenvivo/ #CooperativaEnCasa

08:37 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH, for the case of an adolescent thrown into the Mapocho River: General Rozas has a political responsibility and it is the President who makes the decision (whether to ask him to resign or not) #CooperativaEnCasa

08:36 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH, and violations of human rights during the protests: We have 2,160 complaints filed against State agents #CooperativaEnCasa

08:35 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH: The water-launchers “are used without respecting the protocols” and “we made the Minister of the Interior see it on Saturday” #CooperativaEnCasa

08:35 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH: On Friday we saw the use and abuse of the public force again, for example, in the use of the water-launcher car #CooperativaEnCasa

08:31 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH, in the case of a teenager thrown into the Mapocho River by a police officer: We are clearly facing institutional responsibility problems, that worries us a lot #CooperativaEnCasa

08:28 –

| Director of the INDH and expansion of more police officers for covering up pushing the adolescent to the Mapocho River: This, unfortunately, accounts for a repeated action, which has been present in the Huracán operation and the Catrillanca case #CooperativaEnCasa

08:26 –

| Sergio Micco, director of the INDH, for the case of a teenager thrown into the Mapocho River: We are facing an attempted murder, where there was excessive use of force against a minor and with a cover-up #CooperativaEnCasa

06:27 –

| The guarantee judge established 120 days of preventive detention for the accused, considering him “a danger to the safety of the victim and society.”

06:27 –

| The teenager, who lost consciousness and fractured his wrists, is admitted and stable in a capital hospital with several head injuries.

06:26 –

| During the hearing, prosecutor Ximena Chong assured that the accused police officer “lunged diagonally at the adolescent, pushing him in such a way that he raised him over the railing and made him fall” at a height of 7.5 meters.

06:26 –

| The guarantee judge in charge charged the defendant, the Carabineros agent Sebastián Zamora, for crimes of attempted murder and failure to provide assistance, and found that, according to the antecedents, there was a deliberate will to commit the crime.

06:23 –

| A series of videos show how the 16-year-old minor falls into the river – with hardly any water flow – after being thrown over the railing of a bridge at the hands of a police officer during a demonstration in the capital’s Plaza Italia.

06:22 –

| On Sunday, justice decreed preventive detention for the policeman accused of throwing a teenager into the Mapocho river during a demonstration in Santiago, an episode that unleashed a wave of criticism from international organizations against the police repression in the marches.