After it was confirmed that the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), Facundo Jones Hualawas detained by the Rio Negro Police in the barbecue area of a neighbor’s house located in the La Esperanza neighborhood, the Undersecretary of the Interior of Chile, Manuel Monsalve, assured this Monday that The procedures to request extradition have already begun..
“Today during the course of the morning Facundo Jones Huala was arrested in Argentina and, as you know, He has a pending sentence in Chile, for which reason the procedures to request his extradition have already begun.”, Monsalve said in the session in which the extension of the state of emergency in the southern macrozone was voted, Epicenter of the Mapuche conflict in Chile.
The Government will ask Interpol to issue a red alert for Facundo Jones Huala so that he is detained preventively until the extradition request is formalized. It will do so through a note sent to the Chilean Embassy, given that the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) is in the federal court of San Carlos de Bariloche for “a contravention.”
They arrested Facundo Jones Huala in El Bolsón
The governor of Rio Negro, Arabela Carreras, It also revealed that the National Government maintains communications with the Court of origin of Chile to issue the red alert in the case and thus enable the international capture and the corresponding extradition request.
It is that at the request of the court, Chile was asked for the interest in the arrest of the activist in the framework of the cause for which he is a fugitive. “It is what corresponds in these cases,” revealed official sources.
As a result of the interest of the Chilean authorities in extraditing Jones Huala, Argentina will demand to transform INTERPOL’s blue alert -which aims to obtain information on a person’s identity, their whereabouts or their criminal activities- to red. It is “a request addressed to law enforcement agencies around the world to locate and provisionally detain a person pending extradition or surrender, or similar legal action.”
The Minister of Security and Justice of the province of Río Negro, Betiana Minor, anticipated that the leader of the RAM could be released if Chile did not make the extradition request effectivegiven that the crimes for which the activist is accused do not require preventive detention.
Patricia Bullrich celebrated the arrest of Jones Huala
“We have a short term of 24 hours for ordinary crimes but to sustain the arrest we need Chile to request the extradition,” said the official, in dialogue with the Río Negro site, and reiterated that Jones Huala: “He has no international arrest warrantFor that, Chile must raise the alert level from blue (as it currently is) to red and request extradition.”
The RAM leader is Argentine and has been on the run since February 11, 2022. In 2013, He was sentenced to nine years in prison by the Chilean courts for the crimes of arson and illegal possession of weapons. He enjoyed the benefit of probation until it was revoked by the Supreme Court.
How Facundo Jones Huala was arrested
As can be seen in the videos released by the security forces, the Mapuche leader wore a gray bermuda shorts and red booties.
After having been subjected to a breathalyzer test than rice 1.31 blood alcoholJones Huala was detained and transferred to Bariloche while the province articulated with the Federal Justice and with the Ordinary Justice regarding the procedural steps to follow.
The opposition celebrated the arrest of Jones Huala but did not stop criticizing the Government
Special units and the Investigation Brigade were part of the operation, who managed to find his whereabouts after a call from a neighbor who alerted movements in the barbecue area of a private house. The Mapuche leader entered after breaking a window, and took refuge inside.
At 4 in the morning, a call from a neighbor alerted to the presence of the Mapuche leader, a fugitive since February 11, 2022, who remained hidden inside the house. Apparently, did not resist after being found by the police operation.
The images of her arrest show that she was wearing a knee-length jean skirt, a flowered T-shirt underneath and a black blouse on top. Loose and disheveled hair shows signs of have been resting inside the house.
“There were rumors of people who had identified him in the area for several months and we were finally able to find him. He was drunk in good physical conditionalone, hidden and in a situation of common crime”, revealed the governor, in dialogue with Tennessee.
J.D./Florida
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