Sebastian Alonzo died in 2017 during a demonstration against hydroelectric power plant projects from the Energia Y Renovacion in the north of the country. The demonstrators accuse it, in particular, of not having rescue it.
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In the Ixquis valley, the rupture is consumed with the local police. “Please that the PNC (national civilian police) withdraw”, can be read on panels planted along the path that leads to the police barracks. The police were less than a kilometer from the place of the demonstration during which the environmental activist Sebastian Alonzo died in January 2017. The demonstrators accuse it, in particular, of not having rescued him.
“I saw police cars less than 200 meters from the demonstration that did not intervene, the shots seem to have been fired with the complicity of the police,” says Francisco Simon, a journalist from The region, affiliated with the newspaper Prensa Comunitaria. According to official reports, the police only intervened to make the observations of rigor on the corpse: “Single, without instruction, dark complexion, brown eyes, little bushy eyebrows, aquiline nose, fine lips, pepper hair and salt, shaved mustache , size approximately 1.65 meters. “
The barracks in the premises of the company
Installed within Energia y Renovacion, the company which plans to install two hydroelectric power plants in the valley, the police barracks are perceived by the local population as an extension of this company. At the time of the facts, the operator was based on twelve security guards made available by the company Asteriscos inversiones and eight agents of G4S Secure Solutions, all with a weapon port permit. However, according to the management of these two security agencies, no staff were on the spot when the shots were fired on January 17, 2017.
Juan Alfonso de Léon, director of works of the Energia Y Renovacion electrical project, was present on the day of the facts. “A opposition group supported by people outside the community led an action that was far from peaceful, he says. They went where the machines are and started to burn them, then to Attack the police. Their goal was that we were going. “Even today, on a kilometer, charred tractors, metal materials and unusable pipes litter the road’s aisles, testify to the violence of the clashes.
According to Mr. Alfonso de Léon, the security guards are not at the origin of the shots that fatally touched Sebastian Alonzo. “Anyway for them [the demonstrators], everything is the responsibility of the company. If it is raining or it is not raining, it is the fault of the company. It is up to the authorities to determine this that happened that day. “Currently, except for some hearings of witnesses, the police did not carry out any investigation for these facts.