(From Santiago Chile) Have passed three days since the bloody murder of three police officers in the commune of Cañete and the doubts begin to clear up, while the investigations to find the whereabouts of its authors. This Monday, the autopsies They revealed that the uniformed men were shot Cold-blooded, dying from gunshot wounds to the face and chest, before their bodies were cremated in the back of the truck in which they were traveling.
It all started early Saturday morning with the visit of the police to the house of Carlos Edgardo Antihuen Riquelme, in order to verify compliance with the precautionary measures imposed on the accused in a case for violation of the weapons law and the drug law, for marijuana cultivation. The continuous coming and going of the police towards that place could have been used by the attackers in the planning of the attack, according to BBCL Investiga sources.
Carlos Cisterna Navarro, Sergio Arévalo Lobo and Misael Vidal Cid They headed south along the main route that connects Cañete with Tirúa, and then took an inland road that leads to the Antihuen home. On that route there is almost no phone signalthe internet and even radio, which could also be used by criminals to avoid any communication from the victims.
A little more than six kilometers down that road, the uniformed officers would have descended of the armored patrol when they reached a gate that prevented them from continuing to advance. That’s when the attack occurred.
Although it is still not clear how the events unfolded, the investigations made it clear that there was no confrontationbut rather that the officials, after being ambushedthey would have been executed without mercy. At that location, investigators lifted ballistic casings and traces of blood.
As the national prosecutor had anticipated Angel ValenciaThanks to the autopsies, discarded one of the first theories that suggested that the police officers could have been burned while they were still with life.
Carlos José Cisterna Navarro He suffered chest trauma from a firearm. In short, she died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Sergio Antonio Arevalo Lobo He ended up with multiple trauma, also from a firearm. That is, she was shot several times in different parts of the body.
Finally, Misael Magdiel Vidal Cid He suffered a craniocerebral trauma from a ballistic projectile. In other words, the bullet hit him in the face, passed through his skull and damaged his brain.
Two uzi submachine guns, Ammunition and the officials’ bulletproof vests were also stolen during the attack.
Investigators believe that once the murders were completed, the attackers they drove the police van to leave it crossed in the middle of the road between Cañete and Tirúa, in the Quilaco Bajo sector, close to the most populated place in Antiquina.
After loading the bodies into the back of the pickup, he They set fire to the vehicle, but not before firing shots into the air at the scene. Witnesses interviewed by Radio Bío Bío at the scene the same night of the events described the shots as “bursts”, and it is not ruled out that they could be the same weapons stolen from the uniformed men.
Those who know the terrain closely maintain that the place chosen to leave the truck could not have been coincidental: nearby there are multiple escape routeswith interior roads that facilitated the escape of the murderers.
Although no radical group has yet claimed responsibility for the incident, suspicions fall on organizations that operate in the same area. Here not only do they appear Weichan Auka Mapu (WAM) and the Mapuche Lavquenche Resistance (RML)but also disconnected from these latter groups that are dedicated to car theft and laundering, wood trafficking and drug trafficking.
