The violent Mapuche activist
Facundo Jones Huala
, who had been a fugitive from the Chilean Justice for a year and was arrested during the early hours of last Monday in a neighborhood of El Bolsón by police from the province of Río Negro, began a
hunger strike
at the police station of Dina Huapi where he remains lodged.
The activist and founder of the RAM refused to eat this Tuesday, the same day that he
received a visit from his mother
Isabel Huala in the afternoon, reported
Diario Río Negro.
The Chilean Justice sentenced him to six years in prison for setting fire to a ranch and for illegal possession of firearms.
The trans-Andean country has already begun the process for his extradition and, for this purpose, Interpol issued a red circular to guarantee Huala's preventive detention.
The Mapuche leader hopes to be
transferred to a federal unit
, due to the change of jurisdiction of the case to the Federal Justice because it is an extradition.
Custody of him would also fall under that orbit.
In this sense, there was speculation about a referral to the Esquel Federal Prison, the closest to Bariloche, or to a headquarters of national security forces in Bariloche.
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Juan Grabois defended Jones Huala and pointed against the Government: "The internal enemy made a smokescreen of a young man without any power of harm"