⁍ A Chilean court convicted and sentenced a former U.S. citizen on Sunday to 11 years in prison for firing a gun last year into a protest.
⁍ The court found John Cobin had fired shots at a group of protesters near the port city of Valparaiso.
⁍ The demonstration was one of many that raged across Chile late in 2019 when unrest overtook the country.
– A former US citizen has been convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison for firing a gun into a group of protesters in Chile last year, Reuters reports. John Cobin was found guilty on three counts, including attempted murder and unjustified shooting on a public way. Cobin, originally from the US state of South Carolina, renounced his US citizenship in 2015 and is no longer an American citizen, according to a State Department official.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-protests-shooting/former-us-citizen-sentenced-in-chile-for-shooting-at-protesters-idUSKBN27A10Y