The Chubut police
detained two women who were heading towards a usurpation
inside the Los Alerces National Park, who would be part of a larger group, natives of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, who
are periodically joining the Mapuche takeover that dates from 2020.
The agents, among them the police chief of the Trevelín Police Station, Reinaldo González, found them when they went to land occupied by the lof Catriman Colihueque to carry out an inspection in a sector where Facundo Jones Huala was seen, during the time he
was fugitive
in Patagonia, and
Cruz Cárdenas
, alleged perpetrator of the recent fires in and around the park.
An arrest warrant issued by the federal courts in Esquel since July 2021 for usurpation weighs on Cárdenas.
The first thing the women did when they noticed the approach of the police was
to try to hide in the woods
.
The troops were finally able to talk to them and asked them about their fate, among other things.
Neither of them wanted to identify themselves.
The meeting was recorded in a video made by the local police themselves in which
a conversation in good tone is observed and in which no altercations are recorded
.
The two dressed as hikers and carried backpacks.
The young women had
knives, machetes and shovels
with them and, as they explained, they had traveled two days ago from Buenos Aires to
collaborate with the Pillan Mahuiza lof
, an action that is always suspicious for the forces since the park and surrounding lands grow usurpations.
The backpackers also mentioned their relationship with
Moira Millán
, a Mapuche reference who was a spokesperson for Resistencia Cushamen, the 1,200-hectare property occupied by the Benetton group's Southern Land Company by the lonko Facundo Jones Huala and where
Santiago Maldonado drowned in 2017 Millán
maintains his own conflict with the State over usurped land in Corcovado in the same province.
As
Clarín
was able to find out , in this context,
the young women called "someone" by phone
and tried to pass the device on to the head of the Trevelín police station, who would have refused to speak.
As the women themselves warned the agent,
the call came from the Ministry of Security led by Aníbal Fernández
.
Provincial sources tell this newspaper that the call in question could have been
from the "ministry spokesperson"
, which is dealing with this type of situation in which people who travel to Chubut from other parts of the country are involved with the purpose of enlarging occupations in exchange for money or for exclusive militancy.
According to what is known,
minutes later a cell phone from the National Gendarmerie arrived
and took the young women to the Catriman Clihueque lof.
This newspaper tried to communicate with the Minister of National Security, Fernández,
but received no response.
Calls were also made to the administration of Los Alerces National Park and the administration of National Parks without positive results.
There were no official statements.
Other sources in the province and linked to the local police tell this newspaper a very different version.
They indicate that the police officers actually
received an immediate call from the Ministry of National Security
and had to abandon the procedure to make way for the agents of the National Gendarmerie.
Both people would work in a way that is not clear to this unit, they point out.
In the last hours, the young women filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office for
"police abuse and gender violence",
facts that are not corroborated in the video of the agents.
During the presentation to justice, the young women identified themselves as
Paulina and Raintú,
and appeared wearing traditional Mapuche clothing.
The two said they were members of the lof Pillan Mahuiza.
"As we were in the procedure for the fires in Laguna Larga, we had a checkpoint on route 71, in charge of the head of the Trevelin Police Station," explained the Mayor, Martín Pedraza, head of the Esquel Regional Police Unit , to EQS notes.
"When they were arriving, they observed two women who were walking who
jumped to the side, hiding
from the vehicle, which drew attention and the chief of the police station with other police employees got out of the vehicle," he explained.
"One of the women did not have ID and carried two machetes, they never identified themselves as members of the community," he added.
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