Overview

• Fiscal Mariano Zitto described scenes of blood and destruction at Independiente–Universidad de Chile, denied early rumors of fatalities, and said several episodes are caratulated as attempted homicide after reviewing hundreds of videos.
• Zitto ordered the closure of the sectors used by the visiting crowd and areas of clashes, with any reopening conditioned on coordinated plans by the Security Ministry, AFA, Conmebol, Aprevide and the club.
• Independiente reported it identified 25 barrabravas for expulsion as members and said it will seek lifetime right-of-admission bans, according to statements cited in coverage of the case.
• In Congress, a vote to create a commission to investigate nearly 100 deaths linked to contaminated fentanyl was postponed one week as blocs debate the body’s format, with leaders noting the judicial case continues to advance.
• Separately, prosecutors requested elevation to oral trial for two gendarmes over a 2024 Route 11 shooting that left a motorcyclist gravely injured, and a federal tribunal issued life sentences in a Bajo Flores narco homicide.