Chile, identity of the alleged murdered declared protected

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*Demonstrations was intensely repressed by carabineros *Man in civilian clothes took out a knife and stabbed three demonstrators *The aggressor insulted the demonstrators with fascist shouts before attacking them *Videos show how demonstrators managed to rebuke the subject after having assaulted the youths *Fascist attacks on civilians are repeated once again *Contempt appears to extend to the authorities who have remained silent

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00:00In Chile, a young man was murdered in the march remembering the victims of the Pinochet

00:04dictatorship last Sunday, September 8th, in an attack of fascist character.

00:08The government is keeping silent, and the media is keeping the identity of the alleged

00:11assailant a secret, raising the suspicions of the victim's family and friends.

00:20The hearing was closed, and the identity of the alleged murderer, who was remanded in

00:24custody, was also protected.

00:28Indeed, he identified himself on several occasions as a counter-marcher.

00:32That is to say that he was against the demonstration that was taking place.

00:38And it was none other than the traditional pilgrimage for human rights that remembers

00:42the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship 51 years after the coup d'etat against Salvador

00:48Allende.

00:49A demonstration that was intensely repressed by carabineros from the moment it started.

00:57We are not afraid of them.

00:59We have the right to honor our own.

01:08At the end of the march, the younger protesters responded to the attacks by the police.

01:13And it was there that, without any discussion, a man in civilian clothes took out a knife

01:18and stabbed three demonstrators.

01:20The images only became known during Sunday night, through official channels and with

01:24the government's version, which tries to show the attack as a fight between private

01:29individuals.

01:32There is a person arrested in the context of this criminal act, but the relationship

01:36with the pilgrimage has not been completely determined, therefore I would be prudent in

01:40this respect.

01:41The investigation will be able to determine if it is related or not.

01:49Why does the government seek to disguise this attack that was openly against the demonstrators?

01:55For the family and friends there is no doubt.

01:57The other two stabbed youths, still hospitalized, reported that the aggressor was near a carabineros

02:02picket line, identified himself as anti-marchers, and insulted them with fascist shouts before

02:08attacking them.

02:15This is one of the few citizen videos of the alleged murderer minutes after stabbing the

02:20youths.

02:23He was rebuked by other demonstrators who assisted the wounded, while the subject was

02:28immediately arrested.

02:35Despite carrying a weapon, in the exclusive images of National Television of Chile, some

02:40other details can be seen.

02:44A treatment reminiscent of the murderers who fatally shot community member Francisca Sandoval,

02:50also at a march in 2022 at the beginning of Gabriel Boric's government.

02:55Fascist attacks in the hands of civilians are repeated.

02:59The magistrate understands that the defendant acted with total disregard for the life of

03:04my client and the interests of his family.

03:10A contempt that seems to extend to government authorities who have remained silent about

03:14this murder that ended the life of 26-year-old Alonso Verdejo in the midst of a march that

03:20repudiates the worst of fascism incarnated in Augusto Pinochet.

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