- Title: Chileans in Paris protest outside Chile's embassy following weekend of violence
- Date: 21st October 2019
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 21, 2019) (REUTERS) (PART NIGHT SHOTS) PROTESTERS CHANTING IN FRONT OF CHILE'S EMBASSY PROTESTER HOLDING SIGN READING (Spanish): "CHILE ISN'T AT WAR" PROTEST ONGOING SIGN AT PROTEST LEADER OF FRENCH FAR LEFT PARTY "FRANCE UNBOWED" AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, JEAN-LUC MELENCHON, SPEAKING AT PROTEST PROTEST ONGOING INDIGENOUS FLAG OF THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE OF CHILE FLYING AT PROTEST PROTESTERS CHANTING (SOUNDBITE) (French) CHILEAN STUDENT WHO STUDIES IN PARIS, PIERRE-HENRI, SAYING: "Yes I feel affected by it (the protests) because my family still lives in Chile. I hope this will all be resolved in an intelligent way. I have faith this can all be resolved correctly but it's a crisis, the worst social crisis in 30 years. I think there will be some difficult moments as well." PROTEST ONGOING (SOUNDBITE) (French) CHILEAN STUDENT WHO STUDIES IN PARIS, MARCELO (LAST NAME NOT GIVEN), SAYING: "Now we've seen that he (Chilean President Sebastian Pinera) is capable of taking anti-democratic measures against the Chilean people. So this has to be denounced with all the might necessary to stop it." VARIOUS OF PROTEST IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 4th November 2019 17:51
- Keywords: Chile protests Paris riots living costs. public services Santiago Sebastian Pinera
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001B21KK7B
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A crowd of close to 200 Chileans held a demonstration in front Chile's embassy in Paris on Monday (October 21) to show solidarity with protesters in Chile, they said, after a weekend of chaos in which at least seven people were killed amid violent clashes, arson attacks and looting in cities throughout the country.
Several Chilean cities were engulfed by days of riots, along with peaceful protests, after a hike in public transport costs. The violence prompted President Sebastian Pinera to declare a state of emergency, placing the military in charge of security in the city of six million.
Protesters like student Marcelo, who studies in Paris, gathered outside the Chilean embassy with flags and signs denouncing the measures taken by Pinera to quell the protests.
"Now we've seen that he (Chilean President Sebastian Pinera) is capable of taking anti-democratic measures against the Chilean people. So this has to be denounced with all the might necessary to stop it," he said.
Pinera extended the state of emergency late on Sunday (October 20) night, saying "we are at war" against vandals who had turned out in droves throughout the capital over the weekend.
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