2023-05-21 00:10:37
21.05.2023
The victim is a Colombian citizen with a disability who migrated to Chile irregularly and who lived on the streets of Iquique.
Four Chilean sailors are accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of murdering a citizen of Colombia what was it migrant irregular with a disability and who lived on the streets in Iquique, north of Chileconfirmed this Saturday (05.20.2023) the authorities of that country.
The incident occurred in the early hours of May 19 when elements of the Navy beat the victim repeatedly, “even with the very crutches he used to move around,” the Prosecutor’s Office told the press.
The nationality of the victim was informed on Friday night by the Jesuit Migrant Service from Chile, who knew him following supporting him in his application for refugee status following fleeing Colombia due to “political persecution”.
Defense Minister Maya Fernández reacted in a Tweet expressing his “repudiation with the unacceptable and painful event that occurred in Iquique. The officials were discharged and we hope that justice will sanction them accordingly.”
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the “inaction” of a municipal citizen security vehicle that did not stop at the place where the incident occurred is also being investigated.
He Home of Christan institution that helps homeless people, reported on its website that the victim was a solar panel technician who entered the country walking through the town of Colchane, assured that he had done so irregularly and that, in the health residence , he caught a fungus that forced his leg to be amputated.
Through the Chilean town of Colchane, two kilometers from the border with Bolivia, 21,553 people entered in an irregular situation in 2022, according to official data.
In the city of Iquique, where Domínguez was assassinated, there is also a climate of tension with migrants. In 2021, an anti-immigrant march was held and a group of protesters went to a couple of camps of Venezuelan people -who were not in the place- and burned their few belongings at a barricade, such as mattresses, tents and bags that had been donated to them. .
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