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He Carabinier Freddy Vergara, who was surprised last week in the vicinity of the house of prosecutor Ximena Chong -who is investigating the case of the adolescent pushed into the Mapocho River by a Special Forces official-, he complained about the control carried out by the Investigative Police on that occasion.
The persecutor has protection from the PDI in her home, up to where on Tuesday night of that week two subjects arrived to leave her a letter by means of which they threatened against her psychological and physical integrity, because – the letter says – “corrupt officials “like her” they “have no place in our nation”, so – they warn – they will take the “necessary measures, whatever they may be, to defend our country.”
Then the next morning, when fixed-point POI personnel had already been installed at the site, a guy on a motorcycle drove around Chong’s house several times, who after being controlled revealed to be a Lieutenant Colonel Freddy Vergara; Both events, which are being investigated by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, have not been linked.
After that event was revealed, through a video released by the institution the carabinero denied having any intention of intimidating the prosecutor, how the situation was interpreted by many, and pointed out that he passed by because he was going to a mechanical workshop. This, despite the fact that the recording of his camera shows that, when he was controlled by the PDI, he said that he circulated through the sector because something had “caught his attention” on the way.
In accordance with ThirdA few hours after that, photographs of the control to the officer circulated on social networks, which led to a claim from the High Command of the Carabineros to the government, and Vergara, on his own, filed a complaint with the OS-9 for the leak.
A week after the episode, the lieutenant colonel decided to prosecute the case this Friday, with the presentation of a complaint in the Eighth Guarantee Court of Santiago accusing that he had been a victim of “abuse against individuals”, “violation of secrecy” and violation of the Computer Security Law.
THE STORY OF THE COMPLAINT
In the text entered, Vergara relates that “on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at approximately 7:15 a.m., in circumstances that I was going to my work, located at Avenida Vivaceta N ° 2700, Independencia commune, in the Carabineros Department of Transportation, I was driving my private motorcycle on José Domingo Cañas avenue, heading west “.
In that route he turned “to the right on Avenida Seminario, arriving near Avenida Bilbao, trying to return to a motorcycle workshop that is located in Tegualda street with Colo Colo street, where I had to remove the headlight of my motorcycle that was under repairTherefore, and taking into account the direction of the street that I entered, of which I do not know the name, I could not turn left, making the decision to return to Seminario Avenue, continuing my journey towards my work. “
“And when I got back to the intersection of Avenida Bilbao, I stopped at the red light of the traffic light, approaching from the right side an infantry person who claims to belong to the Investigative Police, who told me to identify myself, for which he I asked to park the motorcycle so as not to interrupt traffic, a situation that I did, “he adds.
He affirms that he gave his identity card and the detective began to consult him “why he was in that place, and why he had traveled that route, continuing with questions regarding my occupation, for which I told him that I was a public official and, specifically, Lieutenant Colonel of the Chilean Carabineros, exhibiting my Professional Identification Card (Tipcar), which he snatched from my hand and I told him that he should give it to me, answering that I was going to take a picture of him and he went to the vehicle in which he was moving, handing my Tipcar to another PDI official who was inside the vehicle in which they were moving. “
“He came back right away and gave me back the Tipcar at the time I was also photographing my motorcycle, not showing me any imputation, Except that I would give an account, not specifying to whom or what I would give an account, also stating that I was in compliance with a protection measure and that it caught their attention when I made the turn and returned to the same street, to allow me to leave the place , continuing the journey to my work, “he complements.
ASKS TO DECLARE AS VICTIM AND ACCUSES THAT PDI DID NOT INFORM YOU OF THE PROTECTION MEASURE
In the document -to which you accessed Third– sure that “the PDI official did not identify himself, since on his corporate jacket he wore another jacket that covered his name, “and that he accuses that, when he noticed” that there were publications in the press and different social networks with similar stories to what had happened to me in the morning, caught my attention, since At no time did the PDI staff tell me in detail what they were doing in that place and for what reason they had inspected me“.
In addition, he considered “de extremely serious that my personal data has been published after the control, being they the only ones who had a record of my identity and photographed my identity card and Professional Identification Card (Tipcar) “, and stated that he had seen” many publications where photographs of me in uniform and civilian clothes, obtained from my social networks, with my full name, which included threats against me, for which I was forced to close them to prevent them from continuing to obtain my records and putting my integrity and that of my family at risk. “
For all this, he requests in the complaint that he is summoned to testify “as a victim of these events”, as well as that “an order to investigate the department of OS-9 of the Carabineros de Chile be issued and the PDI be notified so that they inform the identity of the officials who carried out the inspection and that they be summoned to testify.”
If the court admits the text to be processed, the case would be referred to the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.
