Chile: they attacked again the Cordoba couple who days ago suffered a piranha robbery in Viña del Mar

Nine days after a group of young people attacked them to rob them at the door of a shopping center in the seaside resort of Viña del Mar, a couple from Cordoba suffered another assault

.

This time, they wanted

in which they were driving.

Those who lived through such an ordeal on their vacations on the other side of the border were

.

And after the second assault attempt

, tired of the situation.

"We had been in Viña del Mar for five, six days and we had another five days to spend in Santiago. So we left the Sheraton hotel for Santiago. We did 50 meters and at a traffic light we stopped. And we see that people surround us, "

the journalist in the program "El show del Lagarto" on ElDoce.tv.

"We continued our trip without suspecting anything, we took a street to go to Santiago, and my wife told me:

. I look in the mirror and

. The world fell apart because I remembered what the hotel manager had told me about car thefts," added Mansilla.

The man opened the window to make signs before stopping and at that moment "a guy appears and tells me:

. And I remembered what they had told me,

."

"So I tell my wife:

, because we were already prepared for something like that. So we turned in a U, while those who were there bitched at us, and we went into a service station that was just there," he continued. mansilla.

The man asked permission to change the punctured tire at the station, but the danger had not passed: "Immediately I had the guy who had offered me help. The guys who were there told me: 'they are going to steal it, they are going

. '

."

Fortunately, Mansilla had help.

"Those at the station decided to

. But meanwhile the guy was still there talking on the phone and pointed at us. I looked at him to see if he had a weapon," he said.

"In two minutes the carabineros arrived and the guys left. And I was there, changing the wheel, and I tell my wife: we're

," Mansilla said.

With the decision to cut his vacations and the country, the Cordovan journalist asked the Chilean police officers for one last favor: "I asked the police officer if he could accompany us a bit to leave Viña del Mar. My wife took out the badge license plate of the truck so that they do not identify us, the police escorted us about 10 kilometers, and we already left for the border crossing," the man of the attack concluded his story.

But he added a detail that was new to him: to puncture the cover, the assailants

.

With this, thieves can cause the tire to deflate much faster than using nails and other perforating elements.

A holiday to forget

Mansilla and his wife had already suffered an episode of violence days before when a group of approximately six adolescent thieves violently assaulted them at the door of a mall in Viña del Mar to rob them.

As can be seen in the videos that went viral, the young people first attacked the man, who defended himself with kicks and blows, and then the woman, although fortunately they could not rob them. 

A local police report as a result of this incident mentioned that in recent weeks around twenty minors have been arrested for carrying out criminal acts in the area.

But they clarified that many of them were released because they are under 13 years of age.

During this summer, several Argentines who traveled to Chile to spend a few days on vacation reported various forms of robbery that they suffered in those lands.

One of the most repeated was the robbery of people traveling in cars with an Argentine patent, who even directly

so that the driver would stop, taking advantage of the opportunity to steal everything they could.

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