Chile will deport Venezuelans who attacked police in an event that causes great indignation | VIDEO

The Minister of the Interior of Chile, Rodrigo Delgado, announced this Wednesday the expulsion of four Venezuelan immigrants detained after assaulting police personnel who were carrying out an operation on the Iquique waterfront, in the north of the country.

“We are not going to allow our policemen to be disrespected, we are not going to allow policemen to be attacked in this way”Delgado noted.

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As it was spread in images captured by a passer-by, yesterday Tuesday two uniformed They were carrying out a drug control on four Venezuelan individuals on the northern coast, when in the middle of the struggle one of the subjects hit a policeman in the face with a mitten while he was unaware.

“This operation is also part of the strategy that we have already had in the Tarapacá Region in recent months and that has allowed us to disrupt trafficking and micro-trafficking gangs and also organized crime”, pointed out the minister.

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“I have given precise instructions to the presidential delegate of Tarapacá to start the process of expulsion of these four people. who were arrested for attacking carabineros (…). These people will be expelled in the same way, that is, if they have a conviction or not”, he added.

For his part, the country’s elected president, Gabriel Boric, published a message on his social networks condemning what happened in the attack.

“Everywhere the security issue is a priority. We have discussed it with the general director, we must make the police more efficient in making complaints, take the streets away from crime and drug trafficking with more community activities”, he claimed.

In Chile there are 1.4 million migrants, equivalent to more than 7% of the population, and Venezuelans are the most numerous, followed by Peruvians, Haitians and Colombians.

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