President Gabriel Boric announced tonight, on his behalf of As he explained, “After speaking with the General Director of the Carabineros, the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces, the Chief of National Defense and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having also evaluated the different alternatives and taking into account the needs of the investigation in progress, I have instructed to decree a curfew in the communes of Cañete, Contulmo and Tirúa between 00:00 and 7:00 hrs.” In addition, he announced a reinforcement of the police and military presence in the area.
In this regard, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, said that “The objective (of the measure) fundamentally obeys two tasks that seem essential to us. One of the central objectives is to be able to facilitate the research that is being carried out, “which is decisive in being able to identify those responsible, arrest them and punish them.”
The second, he explained, “has to do with being able to have better territorial control and detect from that perspective movements that could be considered suspicious.”
He added that “tomorrow, together with the regional presidential delegate who accompanies me, Daniela Dresner, at 9 in the morning, we are going to meet with the regional prosecutor, together with the heads of the legal division of the Ministry of the Interior, precisely to return to use all the capacities that the Government and the State have to facilitate and support the investigation. We are also going to meet with the mayors tomorrow and after noon we will have a meeting with the team that is in charge of the investigation, headed by General Jaime Velasco, who is director of drug control and criminal investigation. of Carabineros of Chile”.
After speaking with the General Director of the Carabineros, the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces, the Chief of National Defense and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having also evaluated the different alternatives and attending to the needs of the…
— Gabriel Boric Font (@GabrielBoric) April 28, 2024