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From the Medical College they denounced the sending of an email with death threats and sexual violence addressed to the personal tray of its president, Izkia Siches, in which unknown persons were targeting both her and her family.
“Our president Izkia Siches has been threatened in her personal email, with deep violence and machismo. She is not alone, we ask for your help in sharing and showing our support, ”said Francisca Crispi, president of the Gender and Health Department of the union, asking the PDI, Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry to“ take all the letters on the matter. ”
Our president @izkia she has been threatened in her personal email, with deep violence and machismo. She is not alone, we ask for your help in sharing and showing our support, and we ask @PDI_CHILE @FiscaliadeChile @min_interior take all the cards in the matter. pic.twitter.com/hTZgWAKnwd
– Francisca Crispi (@Francrispi) April 23, 2020
Among other things, the email threatens praying “Negra shell… we are going to cut your throat and rape you “, and” it comes to you pesaito bitch (sic) ”. He also targets his family, treating her as a “disgusting unhappy black Mapuche”, referring to the doctor’s Aymara ancestry.
In addition, he threatens to attack his social networks, in a context in which Siches this Wednesday had already reported that access to his Instagram account was blocked.
From the Colmed reported that “a month ago we made a complaint for serious threats against his physical integrity. However, such behaviors have not ceased, so we have reported new facts to the Investigative Police and we will file a criminal complaint to prosecute the criminal responsibility of their authors. ”
“As a Medical College of Chile we will continue to work as we have done up to now for the Public Health of our country and we will not be intimidated by these despicable behaviors,” said the College.
According to information from Radio Bío Bío, the case was referred to the Oriente Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.
Cross sentence
From the Government, the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, and the Minister of Government, Karla Rubilar, condemned the events.
Mañalich expressed that “the threats against dra. Izkia Siches are cowardly and unacceptable ”, while Rubilar maintained that“ attacks, hatred and threats, which unfortunately become more and more frequent for many, cannot win the battle for a more united and united society. This deserves a cross sentence. Izkia Force ”.
For his part, the deputy Andrés Celis, member of the Health Commission, maintained that “it is very important to give a clear signal. The Government must become part and tirelessly look for who did this; you never know the consequences or how you can escalate this type of unscrupulous violence. I also hope that the PDI Cybercrime can participate, looking for the person who sent this email. “
From the opposition, the Liberal Party affirmed through its Twitter account that “with hatred, violence and machismo they try to intimidate a woman who from the Colmed has led this difficult crisis in a constructive way. Understand: Izkia is not alone. “
Finally, the deputy and president of Social Convergence, Gael Yeomans, maintained that the president of Colmed “has our full support.”
“Here the corresponding institutions must do their work, in particular the PDI” to “give security today that the institutions, the organizations, the unions, can continue their work,” he added.
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