In the midst of the proceedings carried out to clarify the case of Franco Vargas, the 19 year old conscript who died while exercising during a military march, The parents of the other affected soldiers demand that they be released from military service.
Let us remember that the activity carried out by the Motorized Brigade No. 24 “Huamachuco” of the VI Division in the commune of Putreregion of Arica and Parinacota, left a deceased, 45 patients with “respiratory symptoms” and one series of complaints for abuse.
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“Hand over our children”
“Mr. Army, please hand over our childrenPlease unsubscribe whoever requests it. Or what? Do you want to return them to me like Franco, in a drawer?“said Carolina, mother of one of the sick conscripts.
Along these lines, he assured that when he spoke with his son he “He cried, he said ‘Mom, get me out of here, it’s inhuman, they treat us badly, like faggots, like idiots’”.
Franco’s mother Romy Vargasexplained that his son had only been doing his military service for two weeks, when, for reasons that are being investigated, lost his life in the middle of a walk in the intense cold.
Franco’s family lawyer, Sebastian Andrademaintained that they took them “to walk in weather conditions that were around -15 degrees. They didn’t have a first layer, they didn’t have a jacket, they didn’t have a coat.”.
“They told me I was intoxicated.”
For her part, Daniela, mother of another soldier, joined the testimonies and revealed that “They told me that my son was intoxicatedthat they had possibly drank water from a well or that they had possibly eaten raw meat or some animal.”
The Brigadier General Francisco Silva assured that “the only thing we found was respiratory symptoms”. Likewise, he explained that “the germ that was attacking us strongly was influenza A H3 virusand in the case of one of the soldiers who was more serious, it is the Escherichia coli bacteria”.
However, Dr. Luis Herrera, from the emergency department at the Los Andes Clinic, explained that “Escherichia coli bacteria are spread through eating contaminated food. with this bacteria, which may be contaminated with someone’s feces or by poor handling of some foods.”
