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This morning the Commission for Women and Gender Equality of the Chamber of Deputies expected to receive the director general of the Carabineros, Mario Rozas, to learn about the measures that the institution would or would not have adopted to protect Norma Vásquez, a police officer who would have been assassinated. by Gary Valenzuela, ex uniformed.
However, Rozas did not appear before the deputies, nor did he send his excuses. The Commission was simply informed that there would be three generals who would attend the instance.
“This Commission must be respected,” said the president of the Commission, deputy Camila Vallejo, together with confirming that they will send a note of protest to General Rozas for his absence. Vallejo recalled that Norma had denounced Valenzuela for attempted rape, so it was necessary to know the position of the Carabineros regarding the events.
Instead of Rozas, two generals and one major attended, which was not accepted by the Commission, since the director general did not send any kind of excuse. “The Carabineros officials who attended the session deserve all our respect, but the request was made to the highest authority and we believe that it is he who should attend to account for how the protocols to protect Norma Vásquez operated,” Vallejo said.
The same measure will apply due to the representatives of the Budget Office (Dipres), who were not present at the instance either.
Criticisms of Rozas
“This commission deserves all the respect like any other commission of the National Congress and in these cases that involve us directly as a Commission, as women, we should at least have the authorities present and have them answer us. And I think we have to make it known, to the Ministry of Finance, so that they may be present in the next opportunity because in general they do not attend this commission, and to the General Director because the invitation was to him in particular, “the communist deputy added during the session.
In the same vein, Deputy Loreto Carvajal (PPD) added: “The absence of Mario Rozas is one more demonstration of how secondary gender violence is for said institution. If General Rozas considered that it was a minor issue and he could not attend to account for the null action of his institution, which an attacked woman can expect. Today we are completely defenseless and we will not allow that anymore. “
“The General Director of the Carabineros has played an absent role, always delegating to other officials and it is now time for him to give an account regarding the work of the Carabineros in the face of gender violence,” he added.
Marcela Hernando (PR), meanwhile, pointed out: “That the ministers and undersecretaries do not attend the women’s and gender equality commission only reflects their contempt for the issues that this commission sees and that is serious.”
Deputy Maya Fernández (PS) joined in the reproaches of her colleagues. “It was important that the Commission and public opinion could learn from the General Director herself the prevention and protection measures for police officers and civil servants, so that these acts of sexist violence can be eradicated from the institution,” she said.
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