Protesters demand resignation of police head in Chile

Santiago de Chile, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Surrounded by a strong police deployment, dozens of Chileans on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the police director, General Ricardo Yañez, who is responsible for the repression during the 2019 social outbreak.

January 9, 2024
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Demonstrators, convened by human rights groups, delivered a letter to the police directorate and to La Moneda Palace to request Yañez’s departure.

Slogans like “Justice, truth, no to impunity,” “No democracy can be sustained without first ending so much impunity” and “The Armed Forces and the Police must respond, killing Chileans was not their duty,” were chanted by the demonstrator.

In January, the Prosecutor’s Office asked to initiate a lawsuit against the police chief for the crime of omission of “unlawful coercion resulting in serious injury and homicides” that occurred on during the uprising in October 2019, when 30 people were killed and thousands were injured, including over 400 eye-damaged people.

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