“Chilean Navy Members Arrested for Beating and Killing Disabled Man in Iquique”

2023-05-19 17:37:41

The Public Ministry confirmed that, during this morning, they were arrested three members of the Chilean Navy in Iquique, who during the early morning They would have beaten a disabled person living on the streets, who died hours later at the Iquique Hospital due to the seriousness of the injuries caused.

According to preliminary information, it would be three members of the Navy, who arrived in the Tarapacá region on the Admiral Cochrane Ship of the National Squad, in order to participate in the commemoration of the Day of Naval Glories, this May 21.

The attack would have occurred in the central sector of Iquique, on the streets of Ramírez and Tarapacá, and the victim is a person with no known residence and who needed crutches to get around – he was missing one of his legs.

The Armada confirmed the facts through a statement, reporting that “during the early morning of May 19, 3 naval servants from the Cochrane Frigate, a unit dependent on the Commander-in-Chief of the Squad, deployed in the port of Iquique, saw each other involved in a physical assault against a third party, who was taken to a care center, and later died.”

According to information that he was able to gather Bio Bio Radiothe three sailors arrested they would have had an altercation with people on the street during the early morning, at which time one of them would have been severely beaten, who was also disabled, and who lost her life in the Hospital.

The three sailors detained by the Carabineros will go to detention control in the Iquique Guarantee Court in the next few hours.

Review the images captured by public security videos and that account for the aggression:

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