The house of the Chilean Defense Minister, Maya Fernández, was attacked, while one of President Gabriel Boric’s escorts was shot in the arm after the official car was stolen, authorities confirmed this Saturday.
Chile is experiencing “the worst moment in security since the return to democracy”acknowledged weeks ago the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, due to the increase in both the number and the seriousness of crimes.
Fernández, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the former socialist president overthrown by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), was not at home in the Ñuñoa neighborhood at the time of the assault on Friday night, but the criminals beat her son and threatened her husband.
“There was a robbery in the building of the Minister of Defense, where Her husband and one of her children were there. Product of this crime, unknown subjects stole species and also a vehicle “Police General Jean Camus told the press.
The Chilean medium BioBio recorded that the group of strangers had the objective of stealing different objects from inside the house, that the incident happened around 8:00 p.m. and that it was at least three criminals who carried white and firearms.
According to sources consulted by the aforementioned media, They beat the minister’s son and handcuffed her husband mainly to steal technological objects and a car.
On the same night one of the bodyguards working in President Boric’s security detail was robbed and shot in the arm when he was approached by a group of people while he was inside one of the official vehicles of the Presidency.
The bodyguard, a Carabineros police sergeant, he was alone in the vehicle in the neighborhood of San Miguel, in the south of Santiago, returning to the presidential palace of La Moneda to leave the car.
The criminals approached him and They took him to a town in the north of the city. They attacked him and shot himto then abandon him in the street and flee aboard the vehicle.
According to Vergara, the official works in the “extended team” of the presidential guard group, but he was not a direct bodyguard for the president.
The affected person was left with ballistic impact injuries, as well as cuts to the cheekbone and scalplocal media reported.
the policeman he was assisted by a passer-by who was near the scene and helped him get to a police station, from where he was transferred to a hospital.
“We must redouble our commitment to the security and increase efficiency levels to deal with crime in Chile”said Undersecretary Vergara this Saturday.
“We have committed concrete actions to go after organized crime”, which is believed to be behind the increase in crime, said Manuel Monsalve, Vice Minister of the Interior and Security, referring to the cooperation between the militarized Carabineros police and the civilian Investigations police.
With information from AFP, EFE
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