The incident occurred after 3 p.m. when Boric arrived at the headquarters of the regional government, in La Serena, to lead a meeting with the highest authorities in the area.
Before entering the building Boric approached the fences to greet adherents who were in the area, in which there were also some protesters rejecting the president.
The videos show that at that moment a person throws a stone that hits the chief of staff, Matias Meza-Lopehandia, and that at first Boric does not realize the incident.
In other footage it is seen that the projectile bounces back to Boric, who only recently understands that something is happening when the security agents move him away, reported the sites of La Tercera and Radio Cooperativa.
“It was a stone that hit one of the president’s advisers in the chest. The man was detained by presidential security personnel and handed over to territorial personnel, to our personnel. He was transferred to the police station to adopt the rigorous procedure,” he said. Police Colonel Rodrigo Alvarado spoke to Chilevisión.
The aggressor was arrested for attacking the authority, he does not have a criminal record, Carabineros reported.
“If someone believes that they can intimidate me or change the way of governing, they are very wrong,” Boric said later.who guaranteed that he will continue “talking with the people who agree and those who disagree, because that is the role of a government: to listen, to look them in the eye, to know that there are anguishes, worries and hopes.”
For the president, if a ruler “locks himself in” and only speaks “with authorities in ultra-protected places” “an important part of what is happening in Chile” is lost.
“So I’m going to continue going out into the street and I’m going to continue with my agenda and my way of being; let no one have any doubts about it,” he said, according to the newspaper La Tercera.
Asked if he planned to take legal action against the man who threw the stone, he simply replied: “I’m not thinking about that.”
Source: Ambito
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