The spokesperson for the Coordinator of Ocular Trauma Victims, Marta Valdes, summoned the authorities after Friday a new person suffered eye injuries during a protest in downtown Santiago, adding to the more than 460 eye injuries that have been registered since the beginning of the social outbreak in October 2019.
The event occurred when Felipe Avila, 30, registered with his camera the demonstrations in which hundreds of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Sebastián Piñera and demand the release of those who have been detained in the wave of protests, which the organizers consider as ” political prisoners”.
The victim was referred to the Central Post and later to the Santa María Clinic, where he is currently hospitalized.
“Is unsustainable and intolerable that there is still so much brutal repression of Carabineros in an unjustified manner against protesters who do it peacefully, “said the spokeswoman for the Coordinator of Ocular Trauma Victims to Cooperative.
“We are not willing to continue tolerating these human rights violations and we will everything you need as a coordinator to report it internationally, to demand that this does not continue to happen, “Valdés emphasized.
From La Moneda, the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, confirmed this Saturday that the incident occurred when the injured was “behind a police unit that was advancing, was not head-on, and at that moment this person unfortunately falls to the ground and of course later the final evaluations would have apparently resulted in ocular trauma with the loss of the eye. “
Delgado thus ruled out the alleged participation of Carabineros In fact, however, he said that “we deeply regret this type of event, we deeply reject it and the Carabineros is already conducting a thorough investigation through the cameras of the sector, of all the evidence that exists around to be able to determine and put all the background for this investigation to define what happened. “
The demonstrations registered this Friday left 19 people arrested, numerous points in the center of Santiago with barricades and a bank branch burned down.
It is reprehensible that representatives of the Government deny the violations to #DDHH, while Carabineros leaves a new attacked with #Ocular Trauma. If you have any record of what happened, send it to [email protected] your contribution is essential. #JusticeForFelipe pic.twitter.com/OSkYQKjZTy
– The Eyes of Chile (@losojosdechile) December 12, 2020
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