Carabineros (police) of Chile reported that there was a series of incidents in downtown Santiagowhich began in the Alameda, in front of the La Moneda presidential palace, and continued in the Recoleta district, near the General Cemetery, where the traditional mobilization in homage to the victims of the coup ends every year.
“Hooded men throw incendiary objects at the Public Order Control (COP) personnel in Alameda near Teatinos,” the institution reported on social networks, adding that “hooded men throw fireworks at the body of a policeman, and incendiary devices at COP personnel in front of La Moneda.
“If we want to get ahead, which I have no doubt, it is the will of the great and overwhelming majority of Chileans, to meet again, it has to be in peace and without violence,” Boric said of the incidents, according to Chilean newspapers El Mercury and the Third.
“Democracy is built with dialogue, respecting those who think differently and never with violence,” stressed the president.
missing person search plan
Earlier, Boric announced the launch of the search plan for the disappeared during the dictatorship, within the framework of the official activities in commemoration of the coup.
“Our commitment is to tirelessly continue searching for the disappeared detainees, 1,192 disappeared detainees who still do not know where they are; it is not acceptable, it is not tolerable, we cannot naturalize them,” said the president.
The initiative, which had been announced in June during the president’s annual speech in Congress, proposes to work together with the organizations of relatives of the disappeared and executed for political reasons.
“This commitment is never again, to advance in truth, justice, reparation for all victims of violence perpetrated by state agents, because that is the only and main guarantee of non-repetition that we can offer,” said Boric.
The president also commented that in the morning he visited the tomb of the president overthrown on September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, in the General Cemetery of Santiago.
Throughout the day, various political groups and citizens came to pay homage to the statue of Allende in front of La Moneda to deposit red carnations in his honor.
The Chilean government began today the commemoration of the 50th. anniversary of the coup, which will end in a year.
Pinochet’s dictatorship left 40,175 victims, including those executed, disappeared detainees, political prisoners and tortured, according to figures from the official commission that collected testimonies from victims and family members.
Source: Ambito
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