Original article: Lof Temucuicui denuncia violento allanamiento policial a sala cuna y colegio con el objetivo de «sembrar evidencias falsas» contra la comunidad Lof Temucuicui Accuses Police of Violent Raid Aimed at Planting False Evidence Against the Community The Mapuche community of Lof Temucuicui has raised serious allegations, claiming that a recent police raid conducted on May 14 at a nursery and school within their territory intended to plant false evidence against them and create a «media spectacle» to project an image of «strong arm» tactics. In a public statement, community members urgently highlighted that the latest aggressions perpetrated by the state’s military apparatus are not just targeted harassment against children, infants, and unborn babies in their territory; rather, they constitute a widespread, premeditated, and violent assault against the entire Lof Temucuicui. Firstly, they explained that on May 6, 2026, “state forces violently disrupted and isolated a pregnant woman and her unborn child, arresting a pregnant woman amidst gunfire and tear gas within the Lof Temucuicui.
In this bloody operation, the state criminally detained a 4-year-old child alongside his mother, subjecting children to the brutality of an excessive military presence. ” Furthermore, they stated that “just eight days later, the military machine returned with the same malicious intent” to the Lof, unlawfully entering a nursery and school within the territory, turning spaces meant for early childhood care into war zones. Additionally, they indicated that “as if the trauma inflicted on children inside classrooms was not enough, the state’s repressive forces directly kidnapped two school buses, illegally retaining the sole transport for community students in an unprecedented act of military intimidation and state piracy within Lof Temucuicui.
” The community detailed that both operations involved high police contingents and direct military support, “utilizing drones and highly sophisticated weaponry,” accusing them of firing more than 400 shots during each of these operations against the Lof Temucuicui. “The question we pose to the world is clear: How can a territory be raided in such a brutal manner, with the explicit focus of violence being to target all of Lof Temucuicui, attacking nurseries and schools, and yet publicly declare the seizure of ‘high-caliber weaponry’ without a single arrest on site? ” questioned the Mapuche community members.
At this point, they emphatically declared that it is a farce that “falls under its own weight. ” “We clearly explain the crude strategy of the Prosecutor’s Office and Carabineros during this second incursion: in the operation on May 6, the court completely dismissed the alleged ‘evidence’ presented by the Public Ministry, denying mass preventive detentions and leaving almost all community members under lesser precautionary measures due to insufficient technical solidity,” they continued. Thus, the statement continues, “realizing that they were failing judicially, they consciously opted for a different political strategy in the raid on May 14: to not arrest anyone and limit themselves to planting false evidence in the territory of Lof Temucuicui.
” “We challenge the basic logic of public opinion: What criminal organization or alleged terrorist group would leave an UZI submachine gun abandoned in an open field for the police to conveniently find before the cameras? This manipulation of weapons and supposed arsenals is not new; it is the same criminal conduct that was already exposed during the historical setup of Operation Hurricane,” emphasized the Lof. For the community, it is clear that this evidence presented “could very well have been placed by the state agents themselves to support a media operation devoid of legality against Lof Temucuicui.
” Inaction of the Children’s Defense Office In light of this situation, the Mapuche community of Temucuicui criticized “the absolute silence and inaction of the Children’s Defense Office of Chile regarding the systematic terror imposed on our territory. ” “We publicly challenge this institutional organization: Do the children and infants of Lof Temucuicui not have the same constitutional and international rights as Chilean children? Or is it that for the state’s racism our pichikeche are considered ‘second-class childhood’?
” they expressed in their statement. In this line, they emphasized that “the lack of a robust, immediate, and on-the-ground defense against gassed nurseries, kidnapped school buses, and rifles aimed at children as young as 4 years old in the Lof Temucuicui demonstrates that the protective institutions discriminate based on ethnic origin, operating servilely to security policies that strip our people. ” They also reminded that “the assault with war weapons against infants, pregnant women, the kidnapping of their transportation buses, and the attack on rural educational facilities in Lof Temucuicui completely undermines the democratic commitment of the Chilean state,” explicitly violating several existing treaties and protection regulations in the country.
“Internationally, the Convention on the Rights of the Child put forth by the United Nations is being trampled, which strictly prohibits subjecting minors to cruel, degrading treatment or environments of war-related terror. Additionally, the ILO Convention 169 concerning Indigenous Peoples and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are breached, mandating the state to respect family, community, and cultural integrity, explicitly prohibiting the militarization of their traditional territories and the use of force against vulnerable members of Lof Temucuicui,” they noted. “At the national level, Law No.
21,430 regarding Guarantees and Comprehensive Protection of Children’s Rights and Adolescence is directly violated, requiring all state institutions to prioritize the Best Interests of the Child above all else in any proceedings,” they pointed out.