Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) officials dismantled a Tren de Aragua human trafficking cell operating near the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. Four Venezuelan nationals were arrested and charged, while 12 women, victims of forced prostitution, and a one-year-old child were rescued.
Chilean Investigative Police officials conducted a security operation on Tuesday that led to the dismantlement of a Tren de Aragua human trafficking cell that operated “steps away” from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago.in the arrest of four Venezuela n nationals who will be charged on Thursday. The officials also rescued a group of 12 women, all reported victims of the trafficking gang, held captive and forced into prostitution.
The security operation stemmed from an investigation launched by Chilean officials in October after the body of a 20-year-old Venezuelan male wasburned and with 15 gunshot wounds in the chest in Colina, a commune located in the northern area of the Santiago Metropolitan region. The body was found abandoned inside a suitcase that was then later set on fire.
“We are reporting the arrest of four Venezuelan citizens. They would correspond to members of Tren de Aragua who are believed to have actively participated in the murder of a 20-year-old man on October 5,” Jorge Abatte, head of PDI’s National Headquarters of Crimes Against Persons told reporters. The man is believed believed to have been killed at the torture center that the Tren de Aragua operated near its main headquarters in central Santiago.explained that the murdered man “was not authorized to carry out certain actions, mainly of a sexual nature, with some of these women, which generated an order to cause the death of this person.”
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