2024-05-28 16:23:28
In his assertion, the previous police officer reiterated that he unexpectedly collided with the 16-year-old boy, which brought on him to fall from the Pio Nono bridge.
On the second day of the oral trial towards the previous police officer Sebastián Zamora, accused of pushing a 16-year-old boy from the Pío Nono bridge in October 2020, inside the framework of the social outbreak, The previously uniformed man gave his model of what occurred.
Zamora indicated that He was assigned to manage public order within the neighborhood of Plaza Italia, when he was ordered, together with different uniformed officers, “perform an assault in the direction of the Pío Nono bridge with the purpose of dispersing the protesters and, if doable, arresting them.”
Given this, he managed to determine an individual who was on the aspect of a police car and who was supposedly with “a spear-type object” in an effort to assault the occupants of the automotive.
After this, the previous uniformed officer identified that He was ordered to run north, whereas carrying his employees, “in order that if I used to be going to arrest somebody, I might attain by way of the employees, hug the individual, and knock them down.”
It was at these moments that he once more noticed the topic who had beforehand attacked the Carabineros automotive and attacked him with open arms and thus “be capable to catch the individual.”
Nevertheless, Sebastián Zamora assured that the protester carried out an sudden maneuver: “He makes a turning motion to the left and impacts his shoulder with my chest, which causes me to collide.”s and I used to be thrown a few meters to the north, sliding, shedding my steadiness. Whereas Sadly, the opposite individual is thrown in the direction of the bridge railing.”
The autumn from the Pío Nono bridge
Zamora defined that after shedding his steadiness, he noticed how the protester overcame the railing of the Pío Nono bridge because of the push and fell into the mattress of the Mapocho River.
“I look over the railing and that is after I see this one who was underneath the river. In my desperation I flip round and search for my part chief to, I do not know, at that second, possibly obtain orders from him. Reviewing the pictures within the investigative folder, I notice that he repeated the phrase at each second. I killed himIt was not a I killed him of celebration, however a I killed him out of urgency, out of disappointment, out of I do not know, I by no means thought that…” indicated the previous uniformed man, who started to cry throughout his story.
In his assertion, he reiterated that he remembers few moments of what occurred that day and that after reviewing the movies within the investigative folder he realized that “he was strolling all over the place disoriented whereas we have been in cardinal after which after I returned to place myself behind my companions to observe.”
“I used to be too pressing, embarrassed and I am going to the automotive, I sit down and begin crying concerning the state of affairs. Later, I really feel the part chief come up and order all the part to get on the automotive. That is when my colleagues arrive and provides me their model of the occasions, telling me that at no time did I attempt to throw him or something like that, however that each one I wished to do was catch the individual and he fell into the river,” he argued.