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The candidate for constituent for D10, former president of the Fech and law student at the University of Chile, Emilia Schneider, was arrested this Monday in the context of the commemoration of International Women’s Day. The Carabineros pointed out that the young woman cut vehicular traffic in the Alameda, while from the Comunes party they denounced arbitrariness.
After his release during the same afternoon, Juan Pablo Muñoz, who is part of the command of Schneider’s candidacy, and who was also arrested along with her, published a series of videos that showed what Emilia was really doing at the time of the events.
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In a first video shared on her Instagram account, she showed when the candidate was painting a road in the Alameda. Place where it was intended simulate a soccer field to later play a game who they named Let’s open the court.
Within the shared captures, it was also possible to observe Iona Rothfeld, candidate for constituent for D12 and former player of Audax Italiano and Red Femenina, who helped “direct the traffic”, allowing the passage of vehicles and buses as described. appreciates in the catch.
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Then the police intervention was captured, where Emilia was heard asking what was happening and movements that demonstrate the struggle between those involved. Subsequently, Muñoz declared that it was beaten inside the institutional vehicle, after refusing to hand over his phone where the arrest had been recorded.
Finally, Muñoz published the moment in which they were released from the police station where they were held, also recording the instance in which Emilia joined the performance of A rapist in your way that a group of women starred outside the police precinct.
And, despite the event that occurred, they achieved their initial mission, playing the soccer game in parallel with the peaceful march of 8M that took place in the vicinity of Plaza Baquedano.
Versions of those involved
According to Schneider version a CNN Chile for his arrest, she and Juan Pablo were participating “in an artistic, cultural, and peaceful activity with all the corresponding sanitary measures, to which Constituent candidate Iona Rothfeld invited us. We were in front of the Telefónica building painting a field on the street, the Alameda, letting the traffic run its course“.
“When we were in the middle of this action, around 5 to 7 carabinieri approach us without prior notice, in a totally excessive way, to confront a group of six people, who brutally detain us. Without warning, without dialogue, in a very excessive way, especially with my partner Juan PabloHe added.
In this way, Schneider pointed out that “today is a small sample of the absolutely uncontrolled and excessive violence of the police and the priorities it has. Today a woman was murdered in Cerrillos as part of a robbery, and she asked me where were the police? The police were repressing those of us who were demonstrating for dignity and rights ”.
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On the other hand, Rothfeld declared that the initiative to play a football game alongside the demonstrations came from the social outbreak “To symbolize what it is to reconquer a space that is very uneven, both in sports, as well as politically and socially. Women and dissidents always receive uneven treatment ”. A demarcation on the street that took place in the March 8 march last year and that decided to be replicated in 2021.
Clarified that they were using water-based paint to paint and thus not generate damage to the road. But, according to his story, a bus with uniformed men arrived at the place and “they went directly to look for Emi. They didn’t say the reasons, they didn’t warn, really it was an operation looking for her. Those who tried to oppose or help her, were also arrested, and the truth is that it is not explained.
Finally, and when consulted by CNN Chile at the end of the note, Carabineros reiterated that the reason for Emilia’s arrest was for obstructing traffic on the street, and that any reference to the case will be clarified this Tuesday at 7:30 am in a new press point together with the undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli.
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