Ten schools and two universities in the Chilean region of Valparaíso, about 120 kilometers from Santiago, suspended classes on Tuesday for fear of what could happen with the drug dealer’s funeral which had been shot last week in a showdown. The ceremony was classified as “high risk” by the police, so educational establishments decided not to open their doors to students.
The man who was buried was Camilo Rojas Chepulich, a well-known criminal nicknamed naju, shot dead on Wednesday last week in front of the Las Acacias school, in Valparaíso. He was parked in his car around two in the afternoon, during school hours, when three people approached him from another car and he was shot at least 20 times.
These types of funerals are considered high risk by the police, because different groups of criminals occupy the neighborhoods and take over the territories. Informally block the streetsThey launch fireworks and blows in the air and carry out caravanning by car, among other actions.
“We deeply regret that because of this high-stakes funeral we have to make these kinds of decisions, but certainly the integrity of our educational communities will always be our main focus”, said Daslav Mihovilovic, executive director of the Local Public Education Service of Valparaíso.
However, Interior Minister Carolina Tohá spoke out against the decision: “It is necessary to strengthen police surveillance and improve coordination so that schools they are not interested”, She said. And she continued: “We cannot allow the drug trafficking decides the school calendar. In Chile we will not accept that this happens”. The truth is that schools have decided to close and the students were unable to enter the classroom.
Meanwhile, the funeral went off without major incidents. according to the newspaper Third, no accidents. The police, who controlled access to the cemetery, only arrested one person for “fireworks display”, reported Captain Víctor Torres, of the first police station in South Valparaíso.
Relatives and friends got out of the vehicle at the coffin The Ñaju, who was buried in the Parque del Consuelo, in the upper part of the cemetery. Those close to him say yes to show to his grandmotherwho would live in the upper part of the neighborhood.
Before being assassinated, it is believed that Chepulich participated in the murder of “El Reguetonero”, a member of one of the rival gangs in the area. It would have been as a result of that clash that his enemies killed him, in a sort of showdown.
El Ñaju, as reported by the Chilean news site, had five trials in the courts of justice. The first was in April 2018, after he was spotted at a police checkpoint driving a car with a tampered patent. In August of the same year he was arrested for possession of firearmsfired in 2020.
In May 2019 he was tried for the crime of fire and simple menacewhile in April 2020 he was arrested for violate sanitary rules during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Finally, in April 2022, he was arrested for mere threat against a woman who ran a convenience store in the Viento Sur neighborhood of Playa Ancha. The accused reached a simplified procedure and publicly apologized to the victim.
Source: Clarin
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