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The parents of Aníbal Antonio Villarroel Rojas filed complaints for the death of her 26-year-old son, which occurred amid the demonstrations on Sunday night in the La Victoria population, commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
The events occurred in the context of the first anniversary of “October 18,” the date on which the social crisis began in Chile in 2019.
The young man was from the commune of Lo Espejo, for which that municipality sponsored a lawsuit for simple homicide representing the mom, Carmen Rojas, against those who are responsible.
“On Wednesday, at the instruction of the mayor, we presented a first complaint for the crime of homicide so that we can collaborate in the investigation carried out by the public prosecutor’s office,” and it was admitted for processing in the 10th Guarantee Court of Santiago, detailed Nelson Rocco. , Legal Director of Lo Espejo.
In parallel, “the Christian Democracy, supporting the dad, Miguel VillarroelBecause the parents are separated, he also filed a complaint yesterday (Thursday) “for the same crime, and whose admissibility should be resolved this Friday.
“The purpose of these criminal actions is, in addition to accompanying the family, is to pursue the responsibility of him or those responsible, individualize them, and that the maximum possible penalty be applied for this homicide,” Rocco said.
In one of the complaints, they ask for a 15-year sentence for whoever is responsible, and also request the List of Carabineros officials who were in the area at the time of the event.
The legal head of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), Rodrigo BustosHe maintained that the agency “has been in permanent contact with the Prosecutor’s Office to collect information and power precisely evaluate the actions we can take. By the way, we point out that these facts have to be clarified, there must be truth about what happened with Aníbal, the institute certainly urges the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out an exhaustive investigation in this matter. “
“WE ARE FACING A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION”
Rodrigo Perez, brother-in-law of the young man and spokesman for the family, said that “for us they have been very complex minutes, we have never experienced a situation like this, we are working people, simple people.”
“We are facing a very difficult situation, where Aníbal dies making legitimate use of the right of mine, yours, of all Chileans to demonstrateHe was demonstrating at a time when he receives a ballistic impact, dies and dies in the town of La Victoria. We have asked that it be investigated and for that reason I want to thank the lawyers who have taken charge of the process from where that bullet that kills Aníbal comes from, “he said.
Our president @fchahin and the deputy @gabrielsilber Together with the relatives of the young man, Anibal Villaroel, who died in the town of “La Victoria” in the framework of the commemoration of October 18, they present 2 charges for murder against those who are responsible. pic.twitter.com/PtvqtqGv7o
– Christian Democracy (@PDC_Chile) October 23, 2020
The helmsman of the DC, Fuad Chahíncommented that “we have approached our lawyer, the former undersecretary of Justice, Ignacio Suárez, precisely to provide advice to the family, to be able to accompany them at this difficult time, to do what the Government has not done, to do what the authorities who speak of life, of the peaceful demonstration, have not done, but when that happens they stigmatize who is a victim. “
In the family they assure that no one the Government has contacted them.
“Here let’s say things very clearly, in Aníbal Villarroel’s family are victims“, stressed the Falangist leader.
For his part, the director of the National Institute of Human Rights, Sergio Micco, receives the relatives of the murdered young man at the agency’s headquarters in Providencia.
THE GOVERNMENT IS WAITING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVESTIGATION
Aníbal Villarroel, father of a five-year-old girl and a construction technician, was with a friend on the corner of Departmental with Eugenio Matte amidst the protests when he was shot that collapsed him and caused a heart attack. It was the same residents of the sector who helped him and then took him to the SAPU Amador Neghme, where he finally died.
According to residents of the sector, Villarroel died from a shot by a policeman, without any aggression on his part.
On Monday, meanwhile, the Minister of the Interior, Victor Perez, said that although the case is being investigated, the death of the young man “occurred in the context of a shooting at Carabineros (…) Carabineros had to defend themselves”, alluding to an attack on a bus with police officers that night .
This Friday, he said that “the family has the legitimate right to present the legal actions that it deems pertinent”, while in the Government “we are very attentive to the evolution of the investigation carried out by the Public Ministry to make the determination.”
“It will have to be the Courts of Justice that determine what the judicial truth is in that fact, and that establish the sentences that correspond according to the objective facts that can be accredited through the Prosecutor’s Office, so wait,” he added in the same felt the metropolitan mayor, Felipe Guevara.
The South Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this week that managed to retrieve the bullet at the event site and the cameras carried by Carabineros officials who arrived at the scene at the time of the events.
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