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A week after the fact that he is being held in preventive custody today at the Pudahuel Norte police station, Carabinero Sebastián Zamora, accused of having pushed a minor to the bed of the Mapocho River in the middle of a police operation, told his version of what happened and he assured that what happened and captured on October 2 “was an accident, something absolutely involuntary.”
“It has been the worst day of my life. I never thought I could be in a situation like this. I am sad to see how much my case has transformed,” Zamora, 22, told The Mercury. And is that for the uniformed, “after all – he says – this affected two people, who were faced by problems of others, not ours.”
Different audiovisual records show Zamora “pushing” the young man, as stated by the Prosecutor’s Office when formalizing him for the crime of attempted homicide and also warning that it would open an edge of obstruction to the investigation. Let us remember that the accused policeman faces a process for his discharge from the institution because he omitted that that day he was carrying a personal body camera.
“We collided,” Zamora explained to the morning and argues that “as we were both running very fast, the strength and speed we were bringing made him fall.”
“I would tell him that I never, never, ever wanted to push him down,” he added.
“My job was only to stop him because of the damage that was taking place that day. Nothing more. This was an accident, something absolutely involuntary,” said the defendant, admitting to being “still somewhat shocked,” but noted that it “reassures him somewhat to see that little by little we have seen evidence that shows that this was an accident. “
It is worth mentioning that, after the social outbreak in 2019 and the events that occurred last Friday at the Pío Nono Bridge, the former judge and president of the Baltasar Garzón International Foundation, FIBGAR, and Carlos Margotta, president of the Chilean Human Rights Commission, with the accession of the Association of Italian Democratic Jurists, the American Association of Jurists (AAJ), and the Group for International Legal Intervention (GIGI), sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet Jeria, requesting do steps for “the urgent dispatch of an observer mission to Chile, in a preventive manner, between October 16 and 26.
“Carabineros do not come in to cause harm, to shoot people (…), they go in to seek to restore public order and in that sense, the investigations will throw away personal responsibilities, but the Carabineros will continue working to restore order public, “said Interior Minister Víctor Pérez this Sunday when asked about the case.
Minister Pérez assured, in an interview with the program ‘Mesa Central’ of Channel 13, which is “an unfortunate event, a dramatic event, which should never have happened (…), the relevant opinion is that determined by the courts, because there are versions.”
“The first version that the Prosecutor’s Office gave was that the young man had been taken by the feet, throwing him out, it would have been dramatic, the second version on Sunday, before the Guarantee Court, which had prompted him and when he justified the precautionary measure of Preventive detention, he said that they came running in parallel and as Carabineros come with their equipment and that generates a lot of weight, when pushing it, it generated the force to throw it away, but that will be determined by the courts, “he explained.
The chief of the cabinet also called on all sectors to “hopefully how this ends”, because he doubts, in a “personal opinion”, that the charge that the Prosecutor’s Office imputed to the uniformed man ends in frustrated homicide.
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