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The Supreme Court confirmed the sentence that sentenced the Municipality of Lo Prado to pay a fine for the tax benefit of 5 UTM ($ 251,860 at present value) and train officials in attention of foreign citizens that they attend municipal offices, within the framework of the remembered case of the Haitian citizen Joane Florvil.
In unanimous decision, the Fourth Chamber of the highest court – made up of ministers Ricardo Blanco, Mauricio Silva Cancino, Maria Angelica Repetto and the lawyers (i) Jorge Lagos and Ricardo Abuauad– rejected the appeal on the merits filed against the sentence that condemned the municipality for arbitrary discrimination that occurred in August 2017.
In July 2019, the Santiago Court of Appeals reduced the fine imposed on the Municipality of Lo Prado for the discrimination complaint filed by the family of the Haitian citizen. The reduced amount went from 20 UTM, equivalent to almost 1 million pesos, at 5 UTM.
The case began in August 2017, when Joane Florvil went to the Community Prevention and Promotion Department from the municipality to ask for help because her husband had been robbed.
She did not speak Spanish, so she left her baby with the guard, who tried to refer her to other offices while looking for a translator. In this situation, the municipality gave notice to Carabinieri and the daughter was admitted to the Sename, while the woman was detained for alleged abandonment.
That night she presented health problems and was admitted to the former Central Post. One month after his arrest he passed away and, in November 2017 was dismissed for alleged abandonment.
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