2024-04-12 09:21:40
The 22-year-old was arrested near the Santa Ana Metro station and now the PDI is looking for the other person who participated in the crime.
With national roots and a monthly signature, the 22-year-old young man whom the Investigative Police (PDI) detained after accusing him of being one of the authors of the scratches on the dome of the Museum of Fine Artswhich occurred in August 2022.
The subject was formalized this Thursday, after personnel from the Investigative Brigade of Crimes Against Public Health and the Environment (Bridesma) of the PDI captured him in the vicinity of the Santa Ana Metro station.
According to what was specified by the civil police, at the time of the capture The subject was carrying a sharp weapon and drugsAs detailed, he had with him 17 bags of tussi, totaling 214 grams, in addition to 109 grams of marijuana.
The head of the Metropolitan Bridesma, prefect Luis Mardones, explained that the detained subject “is part of a large group of graffiti artists who are permanently damaging critical places and critical infrastructure in the country“.
He added that they managed to locate him “in the place tAfter carrying out countless inquiries, such as reviewing social networks and clothing“.
Damage to a historical monument
For her part, the prosecutor of the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, Bianca Farías, recalled that the detainee and an accomplice “were with their faces covered and They proceeded to scratch with spray, creating graffiti or urban interventionas they usually call it, in one of the domes of the building“.
“It is not only a crime of damagegiven that it has the status of Historical Monument, declared by the Ministry of Education in 1976,” he added.
Along the same lines, Prefect Mardones stressed that “the damage is pricelesswhich is why the respective authorities became part of the investigation that we, as a brigade, carried out together with the Prosecutor’s Office with independent complaints.”
Finally, he remembered that The arrest of the person who accompanied the only detainee has yet to be finalized.and confirmed that there is an order in force.