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On a rural road, a little before reaching Route P-72, which joins Cañete and Tirúa, I was driving a white van on the night of Saturday 27, around 7:00 p.m., the journalist Iván Núñez next to cameraman Juan Esteban Sánchez. Before reaching the San Ramón crossing, his trip was cut short when surprisingly a group of strangers, who was celebrating a birthday with balloons in Tirúa, got in their way and approached them.
According to preliminary information that the TVN team provided to the PDI, these people they would have been told that they did not have authorization to be in the place and they asked them where they were going. Núñez and his cameraman explained that they were going to a meeting with Héctor Llaitul, leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), with whom that day they would arrange an interview.
However, according to different sources in the case, this explanation would not have gone down well with the commoners of the place. The journalist reportedly indicated to the PDI that these They responded that Llaitul had no ties to their communities and that was not a relevant figure for their demands. In this context, and in order to calm things down, the host of TVN’s central newscast asked them to let them continue and on the way back, perhaps, they could talk. This is how Núñez and Sánchez continued on their way to meet Llaitul.
That was the prelude to a tense day that would end with a dramatic ending. Minutes later they received a series of shots while they were moving through that place in the Tirúa commune.
According to the Carabineros police report, at 8:45 p.m. “a call was received at the Third Police Station of Cañete, in which it was stated that approximately 15 minutes ago two officials of Televisión Nacional de Chile were traveling in a white van without an institutional logo. , upon reaching the San Ramón intersection sector, were attacked by an unknown number of people with gunshots carried out from the side of the road, hitting both occupants of the vehicle, who were injured by impacts from single and multiple projectiles that were fired at them ”.
After the attack, Núñez and his cameraman drove about a kilometer to Route P-72, where they called for help from other cars that were passing by. However, they detailed that nobody stopped to help them. According to experts in the sector, this may be because this route is one of the “red zones” of the South Macrozone: in the last two weeks there have been 10 attacks on the road that connects Cañete with Tirúa.
Finally, it was a family traveling in a The truck that picked up the TVN team. They were transferred to the Kallvullanka Hospital in Cañete, around 9:00 p.m.
According to the police report, Núñez “maintains preliminary erosion in his right arm” and “was shocked and visibly affected by the state of health” of his companion. The latter got the worst of it. “Incoming wound on the right cheek, right thoracic wound, right axillary wound, right brachial wound, right supraciliary cut, scalp cutting wound, provisionally of a serious nature,” the police report details. Hours later it would be confirmed that there was lost sight of one of your eyes.
According to police sources, in the area there are about 11 radical Mapuche communities. For this reason, the Ministry of the Interior filed a complaint in the case to be part of the investigation that will be carried out by the PDI and the Biobío Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The government requested 21 proceedings in its legal action, among them, the monitoring of cell phones that had been in the sector. Specifically, it required the court to “issue prior legal authorization to the cell phone companies to report on cell phone call traffic that were at the site of the event at the time of the events, before and after. Once the information is received, collate numbers or computer data that could position the victims in that place and other numbers, in order to carry out the analyzes to establish who they belong to and, in turn, establish their link with other investigations where they already exist. identified telephones ”.
They also requested the delivery of videos and satellite images by the drones that are in the place, as well as private ones. “Information request is dispatched to Arauco Forest SA already Mininco Forest SA in order for both companies to inform the Public Ministry about the existence of aerial images obtained with drones or unmanned aircraft, of the sector or quadrant where the site of the event is located, that is, crossing San Ramón, Route P-72S, municipality of Tirúa, and that have been obtained in previous, contemporary or subsequent hours to the commission of the punishable act, sending a copy of the same to the prosecution in case of having said records, “says the complaint.
