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He State Defense Council announced this Friday a new demand against the businessman Raúl Schüler, who became known after various heritage species stolen from his property of San Francisco de Mostazal.
As published by the CDE on its website, this time it is a claim for compensation for damages against Schüler for an amount greater than 485 million pesos, for the damage caused to a large number of pieces that have the category of National Monuments, found in his house in the O’Higgins region.
Let us remember that at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, criminal complaints were filed against the employer, seeking to establish his responsibility in the crimes of reception, affectation and damage to declared objects. National monuments.
In this regard, President of the State Defense Council, Juan Peribonio, He indicated that “the Council seeks financial compensation to the State and, furthermore, energetically condemns serious actions like this one, which damage our intangible heritage, represented by our historical and cultural values.”
The case was uncovered in October 2018 when staff from the Investigating Brigade of Crimes against the Environment and Cultural Heritage (Bidema) of the PDI, He came to his 43-hectare property in search of the statue “La República”, stolen from the Plaza Rubén Darío, in Valparaíso.
However, upon reaching the place where the existence of the Buenos Aires work was suspected, the detectives found another ten statues: eight from the General Cemetery and two pieces of iron from Cerro Santa Lucía. They also found silver chests from the Church of San Francisco, weapons from the War of the Pacific, among other more than a hundred species that he had in his possession.
As the CDE details on its website, of the 102 pieces seized that were in the possession of the businessman, 56 have the category of National Monument: five have the status of Historical Monuments (MH); one of Public Monument (MP); 31 are Archaeological Monuments (MA) and the remaining 19 correspond to fossils with the category of Paleontological Monuments (MP).
In addition, 18 ceramic vessels of Peruvian origin were recovered, an archaeological piece of embossed bronze, also originally from that country, and another 15 textile pieces made with vegetable or animal fiber whose origin has not been determined.
Of the six sculptures of heritage value seized from Schüler’s home, five were originally located in heritage sites in Santiago that were declared Historical Monuments: “La Polimnia”, belonging to the MH Cerro Santa Lucía and four other marble sculptures were located in the MH Casco Historic of the General Cemetery.
On the other hand, the work “La Industria” was found on his property, made of 180-kilogram cast iron by the Val d´Osne foundry, which had been stolen from Plaza Rubén Darío, in Valparaíso.
And as a consequence of the absence of adequate maintenance measures, one of the sculptures was found in a very poor state of preservation, another three were evaluated with poor preservation, and two showed fair preservation. The 19 paleontological pieces present a similar situation, according to expert opinions carried out by the Natural Heritage Area of the Technical Secretariat of the Council of National Monuments.
In this sense, the CDE’s claim underlines that it is relevant to consider that the damage is not only material, since “the theft of these sculptural works prevents the understanding, understanding and direct patrimonial valuation of the protected area in relation to each of its integral elements and, vice versa, since the sculptures are decontextualized ”.
Along these lines, the text assures that this situation generates the loss of the most profound and transcendent patrimonial meaning of the Historical Monument, “which is precisely what must be preserved for future generations, this being the very purpose of a declaration of a National Monument. All this causes, in short, serious damage to the cultural heritage of the country, ”the Council maintains.
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