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It is difficult to exaggerate the seriousness of what happened on Friday, October 2 in Pío Nono, and what has happened after, days of the first year since October 18 and the plebiscite for a new Constitution.
First, a minor is pushed into the river, according to the prosecution, by a policeman, who denies it. The police institution first closes ranks and defends him, and then ends up expelling him from the institution.
Finally, the prosecutor in charge of the case is repeatedly threatened.
In effect, the chief prosecutor of the Central North High Complexity, Ximena Chong, has been threatened since she formalized, last Sunday, the police officer Sebastián Zamora, 22, for the crime of attempted murder of the 16-year-old. In that hearing, the prosecutor also revealed that there would be indications of concealment, obstruction of the investigation and falsification of a public document.
That day, Ximena Chong received all kinds of rudeness on social media from anonymous and cowardly trolls. From insult to threats, and then to the dissemination of some personal data of the prosecutor. But, as with violence, virtual life was passed to real. Two individuals on motorcycles roamed the street where she and her family live, making themselves known. There was a knock on the door. His son received them and the subjects, without taking off their helmets, handed him a letter “for his mother”. “Make sure the prosecutor reads it,” they told the teenager. “If you consider that this letter constitutes a serious threat to your psychological and physical integrity, then you are correct,” the letter said, inviting her to “correct your actions as soon as possible.”
The episode prompted prosecutor Francisco Jacir to order the first investigative proceedings for the threats against the prosecutor, and for PDI personnel to remain at Chong’s house.
And the story has continued to get worse: at 8 am on Wednesday, another man on a motorcycle drove around the investigator’s house twice and then stopped in front of her door. It was then that the PDI carried out an identity check, to which the individual opposed on more than one occasion. “I am a public official,” he said. But it was a lieutenant colonel of the Carabineros, Freddy Vergara. He later posted a video himself showing the recording of the incident, saying it was a misunderstanding and offering a strange explanation about a fault with his motorcycle.
All these episodes have caused a stir in the Public Ministry. Prosecutor Abbott contacted the Minister of the Interior, and the Association of Prosecutors came out in support of the prosecutor: “We reject in the most energetic way that it is intended to frighten us, by any person or medium.”
An already very critical situation, which a senator from the Republic managed to tighten even more.
Senator UDI Iván Moreira, in an interview with 24 hours, classified prosecutor Chong as “a political activist (…). She is a person of the left and has a double standard in the way she handles court cases. ” Then, he said that “when you provoke politically you are exposed to this permanent type of threats, and let’s not come to play the victims (…). When you do politics as a prosecutor, it is without crying about politics, and you expose yourself to this kind of thing, “he added.
What is read is a claim to lower the profile of the seriousness of a prosecutor being repeatedly threatened while investigating no less than the police, since he would not share his ideas. Do only prosecutors or authorities related to him and his party deserve safeguards to carry out their work?
And what did he mean by “no crying”? Could it be the male chauvinist disqualification that women cannot endure difficult situations without overflowing emotionally?
Does Moreira believe or not in the institutions of the Republic and in the need to protect them from threats of any kind?
Prosecutor Chong, in any case, far from “crying” or “coming to play the victim”, has kept rigorous silence, continued the investigation of what happened in Pío Nono, fulfilling her professional work.
By disqualifying the Prosecutor in these terms, Moreira does not harm her, but the rule of law, justice, and worse still, the possibility of rebuilding the institutions in Chile with the legitimacy and credibility necessary to be able to live in peace .
Senator Moreira’s words reflect a null understanding of the responsibility and minimum height of vision that is required to be a Senator of the Republic, especially at crucial moments in the history of Chile, like this one. The overflow and violence occur, precisely, because there is no confidence that the institutions do work in terms of providing justice, transparency and reparation, with efficiency and urgency.
That a Senator does not understand that … that is something to cry on. What does your party, and your coalition, think of that?
