It only took minutes for a tweet to go viral this weekend showing the record of a young man breaking a tap in the Las Condes district. Voices immediately arose condemning what happened, and in line with this, Mayor Daniela Peñaloza announced that she, together with Aguas Andinas, would sue for what happened. In parallel, the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office instructed proceedings of the Andes Prefecture of Carabineros, who in less than 48 hours of knowing what happened, managed to identify the person responsible: Andres Barros Vicuna.
According to records that he was able to collect The Third PMit is an 18-year-old student, who this year entered the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, following graduating from high school at Colegio San Francisco de Asis. So far it is unknown if the university will open any disciplinary file regarding what happened over the weekend and that will lead him to face justice.
As sources linked to the investigation commented, when interviewed by police officers, Barros He admitted “voluntarily and spontaneously” what happened, pointing out that he was the material author of the damage to the tap that was located on Calle Fernández Concha, at number 421, in Las Condes.
Likewise, during the course of the investigation, Carabineros personnel took a statement from his brother Diego (20), who was one of the two companions of the student the night he attacked the tap. The criminal action once morest him is supported by a complaint filed by the Municipality of Las Condes and Aguas Andinas.
According to the police report that recounts the diligence, it should be noted that the same young man reported that his friend Lucas Hue He was the one who recorded the night of the events with his cell phone.
Sources familiar with the investigation also detailed that at the time of delivering his testimony, Barros was in the company of his parents, and that moments later, the lawyer who would represent him attended, since will be formalized for the crime of damage to public and private property in the coming days.
It was this same day that the Public Ministry reported that Barros had been identified, and that the prosecutor Francis Wool He had asked the court for a date to formalize it for the crime of damages.
Immediately followingwards, Mayor Peñaloza celebrated the information, adding through her social networks that “these events should not go unpunished and neither should we forget that we need to recover and watch over a country that has escalated in violence”. And it is that for her, she was facing a situation that showed a complete “lack of civility”.
“For that, the signals and the actions must be congruent; the signs are not enough”, added the communal chief, recalling that the person in charge must bear the costs of repairing the faucet. As she herself had reported, the total cost would be close to 5 million pesos.
