The regional prosecutor of La Araucanía, Roberto Garrido, reported that one of the five detainees after an arson attack on a forestry operation in Galvarino, identified himself as Pelentaro Llaitul, the youngest son of CAM leader Héctor Llaitul. Identity that must be corroborated by fingerprints. At least 4 acts of violence were recorded this day in the region.
On Tuesday afternoon a man was arrested son of CAM leader Héctor Llaitulin a procedure after an arson attack registered in Temuco, La Araucanía region.
According to information handled by Radio Bío Bío, a vast operation was carried out after the attack on a property north of the commune.
At least seven people carried out the attack at kilometer 26 of the road to the La Serena farm sector, where they destroyed a private forest camp.
On the site they also destroyed a truck three quartersequipped to fight fires.
The police work, which was carried out with the support of neighbors, made it possible to find 5 people who would have been involved in the attack, which was awarded to the 25-year-old Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM).
One of the detainees identified himself as Pelentaro Llaitul
The regional prosecutor of La Araucanía, Roberto Garrido, reported that one of the detainees identified himself as Pelentaro Llaitul (19), the youngest son of Héctor Llaitul. Individualization that was corroborated by the biometric system, but must be established through the result of fingerprints.
“These events in which these people would have participated affected forest machinery, trucks, they would also be linked to the theft of motorized vehicles,” the persecutor explained.
In the same way, he added that one of the items recovered was a drone, which, as he indicated, demonstrates the “level of planning they could have” for the preparation of the attacks.
Garrido explained that the diligence begins before 9:00 a.m., at the San Luis farm, in the Galvarino commune, where a group of approximately 7 to 10 people enter a forestry operation, intimidate the workers, They steal a truck and a cell phone, and then set fire to the machinery of the place.
In that stolen van they fled to the La Serena sector, where they replicated the burning of forest machinery. Then, also in Galvarino, they set fire to the truck.
The action of the subjects was followed by the Carabineros until they managed to arrest two of them, while Army personnel did the same with the remaining three. The military supported the operation within the powers of the State of Emergency in force in the area.
The prosecutor reported that, for now, they could be linked to the arson attacks and also to the theft of a truck.
Prior to his arrest control hearing and formalization of charges, scheduled for Wednesday morning at the Lautaro Guarantee Court, proceedings were taken to gather more information on what happened to the Investigative Police and Carabineros.
Ernesto Llaitul, another son of the CAM leader in prison
Ernesto Llaitúl, also Héctor’s son, is in preventive detention and formalized for the crimes of arson and attempted murderafter an attack on the Punta Arenas farm in the Bío Bío region in 2021, and which was awarded to the Arauco Malleco Coordinator.
Two attacks, a train sabotage and robbery at INIA Carillanca in La Araucanía
At least four acts of violence were registered during the morning of this Tuesday in the region of La Araucanía.
The first of these corresponds to the aforementioned attack on the road to the La Serena farm sector, north of Temuco, and which It would be for which the son of Héctor Llaitul was arrested.
Another attack occurred on the San Luis farm, in the Coihueco sector of the route between Lautaro and Galvarino, where a forestry operation was attacked. Three trucks and 7 machines They were destroyed during the attack.
To these two attacks is added the sabotage of a train that left the town of Cajón in Vilcúnthe one that was destined for Mininco in Collipulli.
After the crew warned people and fire on the road, the train driver stopped the march and moved the convoy back to the station. During the journey, at least one person threw blunt elements at the windows of the train.
Experiment station INIA’s Carillancaon the route between the town of Cajón and Vilcún, workers from outside the compound who produced firewood were assaulted.