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A Mapuche boy died Wednesday after being shot in the head in the middle of a police operation deployed in a community of Ercilla, in the Araucanía region.
This was Camilo Catrillanca, a member of the community. Mapuche Temucuicui, who lost his life during an operation of Jungle Command, a special group of carabinieri created to deal with acts of violence in the region.
According to the police version, Catrillanca was driving a tractor with a miner when he received the blow that caused him death. According to police in uniform, the shooting occurred as a result of an operation to arrest a group of hooded men who violently badaulted teachers after leaving a local school.
Police personnel deployed a large-scale procedure after the group. of foreigners, three cars belonging to teachers of Santa Rosa School of Ancapi Ñancucheo, around 16 hours
"It is a possibility of a common law crime, which unfortunately ends with a deceased person. There is no ethnical situation or particular intrusion into this case, "said Carabineros Director Hermes Soto. Hermes Soto
Similarly, the highest police authority admitted not to "be able to establish 100%" that Camilo Catrillanca had participated in this criminal act that triggered the operation, but claimed that the young man had previously participated in similar incidents.
The mayor of La Araucania, Luis Mayol, said that "it is a common criminal fact," stating that "the people concerned are the teachers".
In this sense, he added that Catrillanca had a criminal record and that he had been arrested.
The official version was rejected by Karina Riquelme, Mapuche community lawyer, who argued that Camilo Catrillanca he was not in the confrontation, he was coming from his work on a tractor when he found the Jungla commando that He shot him without any provocation. "
" (Catrillanca) came from his work on a tractor when he met the Jungle Command who fired at him without any provocation "
– Karina Riquelme
In the same spirit, the l '. National Institute of Human Rights lamented the death of the young Mapuche and deployed a team to monitor the area of the incident where demonstrations took place, his death. he trusted "a thorough investigation to clarify the facts."
For its part, the opposition made the government politically accountable and, furthermore, demanded the cessation of Jungle Command operations in the area, they have not ruled out questioning the Interior Minister, Andrés Chadwick, who will be convened before the Human Rights Commission as a result of these events
The place of the incident is part of the region of Araucania, center of the confl it between communities Mapuches, indigenous peoples living in southern Argentina and Chile, who claim aboriginal rights on private lands, mainly forest companies.
Arson, caused mainly by forestry machinery, claimed by extremist groups in the region and more than a dozen Mapuches were convicted for these attacks.
