2024-09-16 12:51:18
Prosecutors from the High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office of La Araucanía and PDI officers carried out the operation to comply with 19 arrest warrants.
One person died, a detective from the Investigative Police (PDI) was wounded by a bullet and seven individuals were arrested this morning, in the framework of a massive operation in the communes of Tirúa and Cañetein the Biobío Region.
The police officers, together with prosecutors from the High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office of La Araucanía, complied with 19 arrest warrants against people who may have links to the group Weichán Auka Mapwho has claimed responsibility for several arson attacks.
According to a first report from the scene, The fatal victim corresponds to one of the people who were being searched forwhile of the Detective injured no further details have been provided on the condition in which it remains.
In addition, the The operation led to the arrest of seven of the people against whom there is an arrest warrant issued by the Carahue Guarantee Court.
At the same time, police officers managed to seize weapons, bulletproof vests, ammunition, camouflage clothing and radio equipmentamong other elements.
The reason for the operation of the PDI and the Prosecutor’s Office
The proceedings of the Public Ministry and the PDI were carried out with the purpose of arresting the alleged persons involved in a homicide recorded in 2022, in Carahue, when They murdered a community member who was traveling in a van with his son.
According to reports, all the detainees were transferred to a PDI barracks, before being made available to the courts for detention control and subsequent formalization.