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“The utensils they had were not of great importance, except for this UZI machine gun which is a prohibited weapon.” The phrase of the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, in Cooperative radio Regarding the eight detainees for the threats to the chief prosecutor of High Complexity North Center Ximena Chong, it opened a harsh controversy.
In the political world, the tone with which the number 2 of the Ministry of the Interior lowered the profile of the equipment seized from the group that today ends its formalization for the crimes of threats, possession of prohibited weapons for warlike use and for the illicit of possession of ammunition.
“I hear it on the radio in the morning, I find those terms regrettable. Talking about insignificant utensils is unacceptable ”, commented this morning the socialist senator Carlos Montes regarding the sayings about the group that had in its possession weapons, helmets, Rejection shields and tactical vests with the spider of Homeland and Freedom.
For the parliamentarian, “it is a serious sign (…) he is even asked in the program if it is a new Homeland and Freedom and he does not answer it, they ask him if they are linked to other groups and he does not answer it, he says it remains to be seen. But the appearance of an armed group with these characteristics is something that must be investigated very thoroughly, and taken very seriously.
For the former president of the Senate, Jaime Quintana (PPD), Galli’s statements have no explanation. “If it is in Araucanía and they are Mapuche: weapons of war. If it is in the upper neighborhood of Santiago and they are from the right: #Utensilios. The government’s fight against violence also had a fine print, the exemption for ideological affinity, ”he indicated on his Twitter account.
For his part, the senator for the Ñuble and Biobío region, Felipe Harboe said that “I believe that the Minister of the Interior should correct these statements immediately,” stating that the person in charge of security in the Government of President Sebastián Piñera cannot reduce the notoriety of facts as serious as threats to the prosecutor.
In addition, they insisted on the need to apply the State Internal Security Law against the group formed by Gabriel Jara Vivanco, Daniel Goldberger Garcés, Solange Aravena Méndez, Paula Narváez Orrego, Osvaldo Díaz Valdés, Benjamín Zaragoza Wotherspoon, Pablo Martínez Castro and Fernando Hasler Martinez.
“Threatening the prosecutor of @FiscaliadeChile, having weapons, a UZI and other elements, thus threatening democracy, should generate a complaint x law of internal security of the E °, but it shows us that Subse Interior believes that in these defendants, weapons are # Unpresentable utensils! ”, added the defender of the Childhood Patricia Muñoz.
Along the same lines, Harboe called on the Government to “file a complaint. Otherwise, we would be seeing a double standard in terms of security, which is frankly embarrassing. I hope this situation is corrected as soon as possible ”.
Galli tried an explanation and via Twitter noted that “we have been clear. The threats against Prosecutor Chong are serious, reprehensible and unacceptable under the rule of law. The basis of our democracy is that those who prosecute crimes and prosecute them must do so free from any threat so that the law prevails. “
Galli’s statement
Subsequently, Undersecretary Galli gave a statement to the press where he announced that the Government decided to file a criminal complaint under the Arms Control Law against the holder of the UZI, “with penalties that are the highest in our legal system, ranging from the age of three and one day to 10 years in prison ”.
When addressing the controversy over the phrase of the utensils, Galli commented that “in the first place, these threats are serious, reprehensible and seriously affect the rule of law, and for this reason I wanted to clearly distinguish between the seriousness of a firearm and those other elements that assimilated ballistic helmets or blank weapons that are clearly less serious than the firearm detected and for which we are complaining “
Second day of formalization
This day the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago is expected to define the precautionary measures against these eight people, who were arrested after raids in 5 communes.
Among the information presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, during the formalization that began this Thursday, the prosecutor Francisco Jacir read the letter with threats that the group left Prosecutor Chong at her home on October 6: “If you consider that this letter is a serious threat to your psychological and physical integrity, then you are correct. Given the above, we suggest to you and your followers who contribute to the decline of our nation and our justice, correct your actions as soon as possible. “
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