The Queen declared this Thursday in a state of «emergency» in response to the criminal acts that have affected the commune in the eastern sector of the capital.
One of the most recent cases was recorded last week, when an older adult shot and killed a minor who was assaulting – along with two other subjects – his neighbor.
«Today we are declaring a communal emergency regarding security,» announced the Mayor José Manuel Palacios (UDI)who revealed that the measure will free up municipal resources «to be able to deploy in the territory.»
«Tomorrow we are going to start building our ‘immediate attention center’ (…) and it will not only allow us to have a 24/7 municipal presence, but we will also have our system of municipal security guards who will be patrolling to give more peace of mind to our neighbors,» he said.
It is not about the state of emergency constitutional exceptionwhich can only be decreed by the President of the Republic in case of serious alteration of public order or serious damage to the security of the Nation, determining the affected areas, and which allows restricting constitutional rights and deploying the Armed Forces.
However, different political voices have asked La Moneda to establish a measure of this type for the Metropolitan Region in the face of the security crisis. In fact, on Tuesday Governor Claudio Orrego accused «a red November» in the capital, pointing out that until that day of the month there had been 35 homicides and 43 attempted homicides.