Patagonia – Territory in Conflict – The Funeral of a Mapuche

For decades, there have been frequent tensions in the region between the Mapuche and the militarized police of Chile. Countless supporters of the indigenous people fall victim to the clashes. Most recently, the 24-year-old Camilo Catrillanca, who was killed in mid-November on a tractor by a shot in the back by the state police. On the tractor next to Catrillanca sits a 15-year-old Mapuche boy who is arrested, beaten and tortured. Testimony written a few hours after the assassination by a human rights organization exposes the official version of the police, which speaks of a confrontation and blames Catrillanca for the escalation, as false. Police chief Hermes Soto has to admit that video footage has been destroyed. A few days later, the four police officers present at the shooting were arrested and an investigation into the case was started.