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There were almost 8 hours of hearing, with two breaks in between, in which the magistrate Cristián Sánchez, of the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago, heard the allegations about the preventive detention of the former lieutenant colonel of the Carabineros, Claudio Crespo, syndicated as the author of the shots that left the young Gustavo Gatica blind, in 2019.
After the exhausting day, Judge Sánchez decreed to keep Crespo in preventive detention.
The defending by Claudio Crespo, led by Pedro Orthusteguy, He indicated -based on reports from medical, planimetric and ballistic experts- that there are doubts that it was the former police officer who fired the shots. For the same reason, he requested that the preventive detention measure be modified. “We believe that the antecedents are not given to maintain preventive detention,” he said.
“We believe that there is a regrettable error by the prosecution and the PDI, it was the rush to have a result, the rush to show a detainee, they crucified my client in different media, and he was exposed to the media,” said the lawyer. And what if it were to specify any other antecedent that would give some foot of responsibility, that is a precautionary of roots and bimonthly signature.
“There is no eyewitness that says that Mr. Crespo shot Mr. Gatica”, Orthusteguy manifesto.
He prosecutor Francisco Ledezma, of the north central metropolitan prosecutor’s office, he was against this idea, because in his opinion, “the antecedents exposed in the court of guarantee have not changed”. And in an extensive three-hour plea, he argued that although there is no single element that places Claudio Crespo in the scene, this can be determined after an exhaustive methodological analysis, which, as Ledezma explained, took close eight months to make “because we were never satisfied with the images we had.”
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On the side of the complainant, the INDH, the lawyer Juan Cristóbal González He was also in favor of maintaining the precautionary measure of preventive detention. “We only request this measure when there is a qualified background, and this is one of the cases,” he said.
In addition, González recalled that there is a charge against Crespo of illegitimate constraints, due to the illegal use of the riot gun. “Here there was an attack, there was never an imminent risk in the lives of the policeHere, what they wanted to do was disperse the protesters for the use of weapons, and that is illegal. “
This request was also rejected by Gatica’s lawyer, Pablo Norambuena.
Likewise, an additional 90 days were given for the investigation.
Claudio Crespo was in preventive prison since last August 21.
