During the afternoon of this Saturday, after the murder of three uniformed officers in Cañete, President Gabriel Boric, from a press point at the 4th Los Álamos Police Station, stated that “attacking Carabineros is attacking the entire country. The best weapon we have to combat these criminals, these ruthless people who have committed a horrendous crime, is unity.that is why the present State is here.”
“To To face this situation, there must be no left or right, no ruling party or opposition.Chile has to be there,” he said.
After a meeting with high command of the Armed Forces, Investigative Police, representatives of Congress and government authorities, the President appeared before the press together with the director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, and expressed that “Here is all of Chile, like a single fist to do justice, so that there is no impunityto disrupt these gangs and make them pay for their crimes wherever they are.”
Along the same lines, he indicated that “just as happened weeks ago with Major Sánchez, we are going to search wherever necessary to find these criminals.”
Regarding the measures that will be carried out after the crime, he assured that They do not rule out applying any of the legal tools that are at their disposal.
The head of state assured that “We are going to make the decisions accordingly, with a cool head, with the information that the police give us together, and working in a coordinated manner with all the powers of the State.. Today in Chile there is heartbreak, there is sadness, there is anger. We have it too and we know that the Carabineros institution and, particularly the families of those who have been brutally murdered, have immeasurable pain.”
Thus, the President also supported the management of the director of Carabinero, amid the uncertainty about his continuity at the head of the institution. “Our role as authorities is to lead and deliver results, not to act with a hot head, and in this We are all necessary, by the way, so is General Yáñez”, he stressed.
The general director of the Carabineros of Chile, Ricardo Yáñez, pointed out before President Boric’s words that the institutional anniversary “was marred by an act of violence that is unusual, in an area that is itself complicated”.
“Our carabinieri They are affected, hurt, beaten, but they are still on duty in the street. They are working on the investigations, together with the Public Ministry to collect the necessary evidence to be able to capture and detain those who committed this horrendous crime,” he added.
“I want to tell you that the police They are not going to break us by trying to intimidate us with facts like this, on the contrary, I know them, my police officers have a resilience that is foolproof.. We act out of a vocation to serve, that is why we swear to give our lives for the country and for the safety of our compatriots. It hurts us, by the way. We are hurt in the soul. We do not have time to grieve or cry, on the contrary, people have more insecurity and therefore we have to provide them with more security,” added Yáñez.
Along these lines, he confirmed that He will remain in the area “for the days that are necessary to accompany my police officers” and work together with the institutions linked to the State of Exception, to be able to “change strategies, modify tactics; because they are not going to beat us and they are not going to bend our hand and we are going to put all our efforts into that.”
