“None of them should continue after these terrible events that have affected the Carabineros and our entire country,” Kast stated.
The founder of the far-right Chilean Republican Party, José Antonio Kast, asked this Saturday the country’s president, Gabriel Boric, to declare a state of siege following the shooting death of three police officers in the southern part of Chile, an event for which he He has also demanded that his security team be dismissed.
“The time has come to finish with the great one. The President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, must decree a state of siege today,” Kast demanded first, in what he described as “probably the saddest anniversary of the noble institution of the Carabineros of Chile.”
Boric “must summon the Armed Forces and the Police Forces today and pursue these murderers to the point of exhaustion, to lock them up, condemn them and apply the full rigor of the Law,” added the former presidential candidate, although he assured that “that is not enough.” ”.
Thus, the founder of the Republican Party has urged the leader of the Chilean Executive to dismiss his security team “today”, making explicit mention of the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, the Vice Minister of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, and the Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara.
“None of them should continue after these terrible events that have affected the Carabineros and our entire country,” Kast stated.
The Chilean authorities have confirmed this Saturday that three police officers have been shot dead and subsequently burned to death in an attack under investigation that occurred in a very conflictive area in the south of the country, in an incident that has led Gabriel Boric to declare a state of mourning. national and to suspend his agenda to immediately travel to the place.
The three were patrolling in the community of Cañete, Arauco province, Biobío region, when they got into a shootout with unknown attackers who, after killing the agents, proceeded to set their vehicle on fire with them inside.
The discovery of the bodies was carried out by fire brigade personnel, who arrived at the scene after receiving a notice about the vehicle fire.
Taken from Colprensa.
