The news of the arrest of Facundo Jones Huala in El Bolsón it generated a huge commotion, but at this time calm dominates the scene on the outskirts of the police station 36 from Dina Huapi (Black River).
There is housed the Mapuche referent who started a hunger strike to force his release. However, that is not something that is going to happen in the short term: in minutes huala jones will be transferred to Unit 14 of the Esquel Federal Prisonin the province of Chubut.
At the moment, everything is calm in the place where the Mapuche leader is being held: the neighbors barely found out that a man who was almost a year on the run of the Chilean justice system.
The alert signal that caught the attention of the locals was given by the movements of the personnel of the Special Operations and Rescue Corps (COER)the elite riot police group from Río Negro.
In December 2018, the Valdivia Oral Criminal Trial Court (Chile) sentenced Jones Huala to serve 9 years in prison (later reduced to 6) for the crimes of arson and illegal possession of firearms, as a result of of the attack that occurred in January 2013 on a farm in Pisu Pisué.
However, in January 2022 the Temuco Court of Appeals granted him the benefit of conditional freedom. A month later, the Supreme Court reversed this decision and ordered Jones Huala to be jailed again, but this did not happen because the convicted man fled.
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