This Saturday night they registered violent clashes between inhabitants of Curacautín and the Mapuche community members who took the municipality of the city.
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The community members have been occupying the place since last Monday as a sign of support for the Machi Celestino Córdova’s hunger strike.
Police arrived at the municipality to evict them, while the residents of Curacautín overturned and burned the cars of the community members.
As a result of serious public disorders, damages and injuries to the service personnel, the people who kept the dependencies of the Municipality of #Curacautín. Procedure in progress. pic.twitter.com/32e0JlZN3E
– Carabineros Region of La Araucanía (@CarabAraucania) August 2, 2020
In the images that circulate on social networks you can see damage to the municipal building Already city dwellers screaming: “He who does not jump is a Mapuche!”
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Meanwhile, Carabineros reported that an official ended up injured after the clashes: “As a result of the serious public disorders, in which vehicles were damaged and an official was injured, the municipality of Curacautín was admitted, whose dependencies were kept taken ”.
As a result of serious public disorders, in which vehicles were damaged and an official was injured, the Municipality of #Curacautín whose dependencies were kept taken. Procedure in progress. pic.twitter.com/bwdjWkyVXP
– Carabineros Region of La Araucanía (@CarabAraucania) August 2, 2020
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