A lieutenant of the second police station in Antofagasta was hit The morning of this Monday during a procedure in Martín Luther King street with seven website, in the northern sector of the city.
As reported from the Regional Presidential Delegation, the official was around with another police device, verifying a vehicle with commission for theft, when the occupants of the latter noticed the police presence and rammed the lieutenant to escape.
The officer is at the Regional Hospital with serious, but conscious and out of vital injuries. Specifically, It resulted in a pelvis fractorfor which it is being intervened.
The vehicle used by the antisocials was found by police personnel, which continues to carry out intense proceedings to find those responsible.
The head of the Carabineros de Antofagasta area, General Cristian Montre Soto, said that “this is very unfortunate, one of ours, the Lieutenant Eduardo Baeza, 27 years old Making a patrol as it is done every day, it manages to locate a vehicles that were looking to keep a robbery commission that had just already generated the root of this is that the lieutenant gets off his vehicle to achieve the detention of the subjects, the driver in a way rammed it ”.
“Attempting against the life of a carabinero is attempting against the soul of a country, it is to attempt against people who give life and offer if necessary by a person who often do not even know, over their families,” emphasized the head of the area, who added “that they give themselves because we are going to look for them and we will make them available to justice as they deserve it.”
Knowing the fact, General Cristian Montre attended the health center in order to know the status of the officer and accompany his family, and also during the morning the National Director of Carabineros Personnel, General Inspector Ariel Oñate Rodríguez and the National Director to support police operations in Carabineros de Chile, General Inspector María Teresa Araya Jiménez, Quines traveled from Santiago.
In this regard, presidential delegate Karen Behrens said: “We strongly condemn this action in which, in the fulfillment of their duty, a lieutenant of the second police station of Carabineros is injured. At the moment, our duty is to provide support to his wife and the institution, as well as support the efforts for the soon transfer to the Carabineros Hospital in Santiago to continue the procedures that allow its total recovery. He is a young officer, who has played an important role in the safe And neighbors.
He added that, after being informed of the state of health, he moved to the hospital to accompany the family, next to the security seremi, Ignacio Rivera.
