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A riot it happened inside the Colina 1 prison in the Metropolitan region, which would have started after a search and search procedure for the inmates.
According to the Gendarmerie background, during the morning of Thursday there was a “situation of resistance” inside the prison after the procedure was carried out. However, a riot was subsequently confirmed.
Specialized Gendarmerie personnel are inside the prison to control the situation, which has even presented flares of fire in the galleries. As a result of the latter, several Firefighter volunteers work at the site.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrés Muñoz, secretary of the National Association of Prison Officers of the Gendarmerie, told La Radio that “the information that I have at the moment of a preliminary nature indicates that there would be at least four towers involved.” In addition, he indicated that there is a gendarme who was seriously injured with a sharp weapon.
Meanwhile, personnel from the Carabineros Special Forces and the Army are on site to control public order in the vicinity of the prison, up to where the relatives of the inmates have already arrived. Traffic in the sector is interrupted.
Relatives of the inmates reported that the disturbances would have originated after they gathered all the inmates to raid them. “How are they going to bring them all together if we are in a pandemic crisis. They joined each other and wanted to take prison so that they would not join them, “one of the family members questioned.
Gendarmerie Declaration
Colonel Víctor Provoste, Metropolitan regional director indicated that problems occurred in tower 4A of the prison during the night. “Following the rejection of this tower, the other towers were folded,” he added.
According to his background, there are at least four injured officials and an unknown number of injured inmates. In addition, weapons were seized in the proceeding.
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