Galli for detained for threats to prosecutor Chong: “The utensils they had were not of great importance, except for a UZI machine gun”

The undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, referred this morning to the eight detainees for threats to the chief prosecutor of High Complexity North Center Ximena Chong.

The investigation led by the Central North regional prosecutor (s) Francisco Jacir determined that the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago issued the arrest warrants against the people who on October 6 went to the residence of the investigator, in the commune of Providencia, and they left him a letter in which death threats were made explicit.

All this, according to the antecedents of the investigation, motivated by the audience that Chong starred in days before, when he formalized the then policeman Sebastián Zamora for having driven a teenager to the Mapocho River in the midst of protests.

The eight defendants -Gabriel Jara Vivanco, Daniel Goldberger Garcés, Solange Aravena Méndez, Paula Narváez Orrego, Osvaldo Díaz Valdés, Benjamín Zaragoza Wotherspoon, Pablo Martínez Castro and Fernando Hasler Martínez- were formalized yesterday in the 7th Guarantee Court of Santiago by the possible crimes of threats, possession of prohibited weapons for war use and illegal possession of ammunition. The hearing had a recess and continues today at 9.00.

Galli, on Radio Cooperativa, condemned the events and referred to the weapons found in one of the homes raided. “The armament was mainly blank. Yes what is worrying is a 9 millimeter submachine gun, which is a prohibited weapon in our country, therefore these people are going to have to answer for the arms control law ”.

“The utensils they had were not of great importance, except this UZI machine gun which is a prohibited weapon. What is relevant here is that the investigation be carried out, the important thing is to determine what the responsibility of these people was and also what they had threatened with and what were the actions they were in a position to take, “he added on that point.

Galli added that the fact “it is disturbing of course. It is something that we have sustained permanently. Since last year we have seen that different authorities have seen themselves exposed to threats either through social networks or something much more specific such as what affected the prosecutor Ximena Chong ”.

“It is unacceptable for a simple reason. Democracy and the rule of law is based on the fact that those people who have to make decisions, sometimes very difficult (…), have to do so for a democracy to work and for the rule of law to fully govern. They have to do it free from threats ”.