Investigation into the Murder of Three Police Officers in Cañete, Santiago – Suspects and Theories Revealed

2024-04-30 15:31:24

This is how the armored truck in which the police traveled was left.

(From Santiago Chile) To pass three days Since the bloody murder of three police officers in the commune of Cañete and the suspicions begin to clear up, and the research to find out where its authors are. This Monday, the autopsies They indicated that the men were shot in uniform cold-blooded, dying from gunshot wounds on the face and chest, before their bodies incineration in the back of the truck in which they were traveling.

It all started in the early hours of Saturday morning when the police visited the Dublin home Carlos Edgardo Antihuen Riquelme, to verify compliance with the precautionary measures imposed on the accused in the event of a violation of the law of arms and the law of drugs, in relation to the cultivation of marijuana. The attackers may have taken advantage of the constant coming and going of the police towards that place planning of the attack, according to BBCL Investiga sources.

Carlos Cisterna Navarro, Sergio Arévalo Lobo and Misael Vidal Cid They went south along the main road that connects Cañete to Tirua, and then took an inland road that leads to the town of Antihuen. In that way there is almost no phone signalthe internet and even radio, which criminals could also use to avoid any communication from the victims.

A little more than six kilometers down that road, the officers would have to be in uniform descent of the armored patrol when they reached a gate that prevented them from continuing to advance. That’s when the attack happened.

Although it is still unclear how the events unfolded, investigations have shown that it was not confrontationbut that the officers, have been ambushthey would to death without mercy At that location, investigators picked up ballistic casings and traces of blood.

As the national prosecutor had hoped Angela ValenciaThanks to the autopsies, spent one of the first theories which suggested that the police may have been burned while they were still with life.

Carlos José Cisterna Navarro He suffered chest trauma from a firearm. In short, he died from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Sergio Antonio Arevalo Lobo He ended up with multiple traumas, also from a firearm. That is, he was shot several times in different parts of the body.

At the end, Misael Magdiel Vidal Cid He suffered craniocerebral trauma from a ballistic missile. In other words, the bullet hit him in the face, went through his skull and damaged his brain.

Of the Uzi submachine guns, The officers’ ammunition and bulletproof vests were also stolen during the attack.

So far, no radical group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Investigators believe the attackers had completed the murders they drove the police van to leave him crossed in the middle of the road between Cañete and Tirua, in the Quilaco Bajo sector, close to the most populated place in Antiquina.

After loading the bodies into the back of the pickup, he did They set fire to the vehicle, but not before shots were fired in the air at the scene. Witnesses interviewed by Raidió Bío at the scene on the same night of the events described the shots as “explodes”, and it is not ruled out that they could be the same weapons that were stolen from the men in uniform.

Those who know the terrain argue that the place chosen to leave the truck could not be coincidental: nearby is multiple exitswith interior roads which facilitated the escape of the murderers.

Although no radical group has yet claimed responsibility for the incident, suspicion is falling on organizations working in the same field. Here they are not only visible Weichán Auka Map (WAM) and the Mapuche Lavquenche Resistance (RML)but also disconnected from the latter groups dedicated to car theft and laundering, timber trafficking and drug trafficking.