Gabriel Boric: “Organized crime does not appear overnight”

The president of Chili, gabriel boricsaid Thursday that the delinquency and organized crimeThey don’t appear overnight”, but that the Government will combat the increase in violence that the country is experiencing “without truce and with all the institutions”.

“We are doing what was left undone for a long time. Delinquency and organized crime do not appear overnight or in a year. It is a seed that unfortunately grows due to inactivity in different dimensions.Boric said from the northern regions of Arica and parinacota.

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“This is not going to be an easy fight, but we are going to fight without truce and with all the institutions”, added the president, a day after three agents of the police force of carabinieri were wounded by bullets in an operation in Santiago.

Chilione of the safest countries in the region, is experiencing an increase in violence, which in the last month has left three agents dead in different procedures.

According to Undersecretary of Crime Preventionin 2022 there were 934 homicides, which represents an increase of 34.33% compared to the previous year, when there were 695 homicides.

The right-wing opposition accuses the former student leader of allegedly having been lukewarm in the fight against crime at the beginning of his term.

“I invite all political sectors to join this crusade and not try to profit. Every fight, attack, curse word or offense that we make to each other is a weakening of the StateBoric added.

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The murders of the three policemen accelerated the approval just a week ago of the controversy “Naín-Retamal” lawwhich gives more room for maneuver in the use of service weapons and which establishes that in the event that a police or military use their service weapons, it will be presumed that they have been “correctly used” when acting in self-defense.

The norm, promoted by the opposition and baptized by its detractors as “easy trigger law”, was criticized by criminal experts and by United Nations.

The crimes also pushed the Chilean government to also take a series of measures to combat crime, such as the intervention of the 30 municipalities with the highest number of homicides.

Source: Elcomercio

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