Valdivia
Government files lawsuit over assault on Minister Lincolao at Austral University
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Science Minister Ximena Lincolao was held for three hours and physically assaulted by student protesters during the academic year inauguration at Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia. The government announced a criminal lawsuit for assault on authority, as President José Antonio Kast condemned it as the work of an ideologized group. The university rejected the violence and launched an internal investigation.
The Team Against Organized Crime and Homicides from the Los Ríos Regional Prosecutor's Office is investigating a frustrated homicide that occurred on Sunday afternoon in Valdivia's Pablo Neruda neighborhood. A 42-year-old man was shot twice, once in the leg and once in the abdomen, and was rushed to Valdivia Base Hospital, where he remains in an induced coma. Police and forensics experts are working to clarify the circumstances and identify the perpetrators.