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The Nineteenth Civil Court of Santiago accepted this Monday the lawsuit filed by the architect Rubén Peralta Larraguibel against the Municipality of Maipú for violation of the Intellectual Property Law, since in 2016, said municipality modified the Memorial of Disappeared Detainees and Political Executed .
The monument, inaugurated in 2012 in the commune square, had modifications, such as color changes -to a bright red one- and additions of figures “allusive to the human being that were not part of the initial work.”
In addition, “the names of the disappeared political executed are erased, with which we make them disappear for the second time in history”, and the spaces to sit down were eliminated.
These modifications were made in 2016, when the municipality was led by the then mayor Christian Vittori.
“That in 2016, alterations were made to the place where the Memorial of Mr. Rubén Peralta Larraguibel, an actor of yore, is located, consisting of a change of paint, an addition of silhouette-shaped structures, a change in the color of the panels of original ironwork, lifting of the work and filling of the existing amphitheater and addition of luminaire “, reads the resolution.
In the ruling, the magistrate Jacqueline Benquis Monares ordered the mayor’s office to pay the plaintiff 10 million pesos, for non-pecuniary damage, and to erase his name from the sculpture.
According to the document, the contract signed between the parties in 2012 was breached, stating that the municipality “made substantial alterations to the original project and that they alter this characteristic of an artistic work, without justification or explanation.”
“They transform it 100%, it is not the same work, they mutilate it,” says the ruling.
N. of the R: The note was updated to state that these modifications were made under the mandate of former mayor Christian Vittori.
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