The Chilean prosecutor's office in the city of Río Bueno, which is handling the case of Facundo Jones Huala, finalized a new request for the extradition to that country of the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) late on Monday.
However, a cumbersome legal process began in Chile because the prosecutor's request must be dealt
with by the Rio Bueno guarantee court, the Valdivia Court of Appeals, the trans-Andean Foreign Ministry and it would be the Chilean embassy in Buenos Aires
that delivers the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina the request for extradition.
At the same time, the Subrogate of the Federal Court of San Carlos de Bariloche, in charge of Dr. Alejandro Iwanow, requested this Tuesday the
preventive arrest of Jones Huala
, who was arrested this Monday morning, in a drunken state and dressed in skirts and female blouse, in the neighborhood barbecue area in a neighborhood of El Bolsón, Río Negro.
Provincial justice no longer intervenes.
Jones Huala arrested.
Photo: Rio Negro Police
Justice in Esquel, Chubut, declared itself incompetent.
Jones Huala has committed crimes in Chile and others considered "minor" in Chubut and Rio Negro
.
The fact that this Monday Interpol requested his international capture from Interpol Argentina, prevented his release
from prison, for now, and his escape.
What's more: on Monday, the only thing that could be charged to him is the ordinary crime of damage and violation of property.
The official letter from Bariloche does not say what he is accused of and indicates that his last known address is in “Lof en Resistencia Cushamen”, Chubut province.
It is understood that it is due to the international capture order.
Facundo Jones Huala after being arrested on Monday in El Bolsón
The authorities in Río Negro indicated that in the next few hours he
will go from the Andean provincial police station where he is under security to a federal agency
.
On Monday, photos and videos of his arrest and transfer to Bariloche were seen, all disheveled, long hair, dressed in women's clothes and sneakers.
He had a bruised eye, which according to the sources consulted was the result of a fight or exchange of fists.
Huala was detained after a long follow-up by the Río Negro police and agents of Security Minister Anibal Fernández, Governor Arabela Carreras said on Monday.
Similarly, the times for its actual delivery to Chile are uncertain at this time because there are even sources in Buenos Aires who wonder if the Mapuche leader, born in Bariloche in 1986, could take advantage of a claim to avoid being extradited on the grounds that he is Argentine.
For now they are judicial evaluations.
Hours later and after declarations by government officials of
Gabriel Boric, that "there will be no impunity"
the international arrest request from Interpol Chile arrived at Interpol Buenos Aires.
In other words, a blue alert was raised that only allowed a red one to investigate, which allowed the Argentines to stop it.
Clarín was able to confirm that one option being considered is to accommodate him in establishments of the Airport Security Police, located at the Lieutenant Luis Candelaria international airport.
And that the night of Monday and Tuesday was spent sleeping.
The women of the Mapuche community who had been detained during the eviction of a property seized in Villa Mascardi after having previously been in the Ezeiza Federal Prison were housed there.
The newspaper Rio Negro also considered that another option is to transfer Jones Huala to Squad 34 of the Gendarmerie.
Jones Huala has lawyers and according to the Court of Bariloche, it will be recorded at the joint disposal of this Court, that Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Court of First Instance of Esquel.
What does the Interpol request say?
Request number A-855/1/2023 lists the events for which Huala is convicted in Chile and his conviction for arson at the Pisu Pisue farm on January 9, 2013. This is located in the town of Mantilihue, commune from Rio Bueno.
And it was owned by Joaquin Biewer Piwonka, who was inside his house with his family when this attack by radicalized Mapuches took place.
This is one of the many that said community in Chile and Argentina commented on as part of their fight against the State and against the current owners of the lands they claim as their own.
For that fire, Jones Huala, who was coming in and out of Chile and Argentina, was given six years and one day in prison.
The Court of Appeals in Chile gave him a conditional release that the Supreme Court of that country revoked.
It was then, in February 2022, that Jones Huala went on the run.
And he disappeared from public view.
It was after claiming his fight.
"This request must be treated as an official request for preventive detention. Please proceed with preventive detention, in accordance with national legislation and with the relevant bilateral and multilateral treaties," says the international arrest request from Interpol Chile to Argentina.
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