The Undersecretary of Defense, Ricardo Montero assured that the curfew in the province of Arauco will remain «as long as necessary» to advance military deployment in the area.
Regarding the measure that extends between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. each day, Montero said that «for now we have a positive evaluation of the curfew at all levels. «The authority, the Jedena, the police evaluate it well, and the community also evaluates it well.»
«We are going to use the tools that the constitutional state of exception gives us, one of them is the curfew, All the time needed to maintain order in the area and especially to facilitate certain procedures that we are carrying out in the investigation of this particular case,» he highlighted.
Undersecretary of Defense, Ricardo Montero, confirmed that the curfew in the southern cone of the Province of Arauco will continue «for as long as necessary» since it allows operations to be carried out in the framework of searching for criminals who killed Carabineros @Cooperative
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During these times, a series of raids are carried out, such as the one registered in the Lloncao sector, in Cañete, where it was arrested a member of the Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance (RML) accused of homicide and arson related to attacks and who is in preventive detention.
The prosecutor Juan Yanez commented that «the Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance sustains itself by committing crimes, theft of wood, theft of vehicles, cloning of trucks. Within this group of people to whom responsibility is being attributed there are members of the RML, therefore there are a clear link between them.»
«Furthermore, in relation to the participation of the subject who is currently deprived of liberty, the participation is that he effectively «He picks them up at their respective homes, transfers them, takes them to the place where the act is going to be committed.»he added.