Shooting of Camilo Catrillanca

Camilo Marcelo Catrillanca Marín (13 September 1994 – 14 November 2018) was a Mapuche farmer from Temucuicui in Chile who was shot to death by the Chilean police force under suspicious circumstances.

[2] He was a leader of the student movement in the Liceo de Pailahueque and worked for the reclamation of Mapuche lands in Ercilla, in the Chilean region of La Araucanía.

[8] The police report stated that the shooting occurred as the carabineros were investigating the theft of three teachers' cars from the Santa Rosa School of Ancapi Ñancucheo, in Ercilla.

[10] The community of Temucuicui denied this version, stating that the "Jungle Commandos" entered the town firing bursts of bullets, without provocation,[5] and that the Human Rights Unit of the La Araucanía Public Prosecutor's Office announced it would investigate the facts of the case.

[19] Interior Minister Chadwick and his undersecretary, Rodrigo Ubilla, were summoned to testify before the congressional human rights commission and the state attorney general to answer questions both about Catrillanca's case itself and about police obstruction in the investigation.

Protestor holding sign showing a drawn image Catrillanca with a gunshot wound in his forehead.
Catrillanca has become an icon for resistance against police brutality in Chile. The sign's text says "asesinado", the Spanish word for "assassinated".