A radical Mapuche group set fire to four small planes in southern Chile.
The radical group of the Mapuche Mallecos Resistance on Monday he set fire to four planes which were inside a hangar located at an airport in the region of Araucaniain southern Chile, the epicenter of the so-called Mapuche conflict, which confronts indigenous groups, the state and large forestry companies that exploit ancient forests.
The attack took place during the early hours of the Curacautín Air Club, about 700 kilometers south of Santiago. According to the authorities, several hooded people They entered the complex around 4 and the fires broke out. The firefighters and police personnel immediately intervened and kept their caution on the amount of fuel present.
Brochures were found on the site with which the Mapuche radical group assigned the attack. “Freedom for the PPM (Mapuche political prisoners) on hunger strike, Wallmapu advances towards national liberation, Mapuche Resistance Malleko”, reads one of them.
“It was established that hooded strangers arrived at the scene and, by means of accelerating elements, set the plane on fire. At the scene, a canvas was found and similarly scratched in the hangar itself,” he explained. Fernando MellaMajor of the Curacautín Police.
A radical Mapuche group set fire to four small planes in southern Chile.
For your part, Deputy Commissioner Elijah busts he explained that the destroyed aircraft “were for civilian use and were stored inside the facilities, where at least eight subjects with firearms They set fire to and intimidate the keepers ”.
The mayor of the municipality, Victor BarrieraShe complained: “It was a terrorist attacklet’s say so. We are sad, over 450 million pesos in losses for a club that has served the community. The children walked, assisted in medical cases. The government must listen, it must take responsibility for this problem “.
“The terrorist attack that ends up destroying the Curacautín Air Club and four of its planes requires the government to extend the case for illegal terrorist association against the organization that claimed responsibility for these very serious acts of violence. It would be the 13th attack so far this year 2022 that the Resistance Mapuche Malleco organization is rewarded “, complained the senator of the Araucanía Region, José Garcia Ruminot.
Resistance Mapuche Mallecos has claimed responsibility for the fire of four small planes in southern Chile.
Far from being an isolated terrorist act, the police confirmed Two other similar events in the region. Hours later, another group of hooded men set fire to two agricultural machinery on a farm in the city of Victoria and fled the scene by gunfire.
Meanwhile, a third fire was recorded in the town of Pillanlelbún, in the municipality of Lautaro, where a building and two vehicles were consumed by the flames. No casualties were reported in any of the three episodes.
The Mapuche conflict
In various regions of southern Chile the so-called has existed for decades Mapuche conflictwhich compares the state and the agricultural and forestry companies of large economic groups with some indigenous communities that claim lands considered ancestral.
The Mapuche claim sovereignty over the lands they have inhabited for centuries, which were occupied at the end of the 19th century by the Chilean state in a process officially known as the “Pacification of Araucanía” and which now belong mainly to large companies or families. descended from the settlers.
As part of this dispute, arson attacks on machinery and farms are frequent, shootings ending in victims and hunger strikes by indigenous prisoners.
With information from EFE.
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Source: Clarin
