The police used water cannons and excessive use of force to suppress and detain four teenage students in the heart of the capital.

“Situations of disproportionate violence towards students cannot be tolerated,” denounced the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, and announced the decision to request investigations from the corresponding authorities into what had happened.

Due to police brutality, one of the four students suffered minor injuries and was taken to the emergency room of a hospital, the entity confirmed.

Authorities from the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) arrived at the 48th police station to interview the arrested students and inquire about their state of health.

Beatriz Contreras, head of the INDH in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, expressed her concern about the violence used against the students.

Also, the president of the Senate Human Rights Commission, Fabiola Campillai, visited the relatives of the arrested teenagers.

Campillai is one of the victims of police repression against the social outbreak of 2019, when a tear gas grenade launched by a police officer hit her in the face and caused her total loss of vision and fractures to her face and skull.

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