Court revoked preventive detention of former policeman charged in the case of Fabiola Campillai



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The Court of Appeals of San Miguel accepted the appeal of precautionary measures presented by the defense of former Carabineros captain Patricio Maturana, and revoked the preventive detention against the accused as the alleged perpetrator of extremely serious injuries that took away Fabiola Campillai’s vision, smell and taste.

Patricio maturanaAfter a formalization that lasted for more than seven hours, he had been held in preventive detention on August 28, and had been transferred to the Pudahuel Norte Penitentiary Annex for being considered a “concrete danger to the safety of society“, according Judge Claudio Ortega concluded.

It was at this hearing that the highly complex prosecutor Paola Zarate affirmed that the accused, “abusing his position and with the purpose of uttering pain, fires a shot with the gas launcher carbine he was carrying“, affecting Campillai, neighboring the Cinco Pinos de San Bernardo sector, waiting for collective locomotion to go to work.

Despite these antecedents, the former uniformed man will comply with the precautionary measure with total house arrest and national roots, thus rejecting the preventive detention decreed in the first instance.

The investigation was not compromised

The rapporteur of the Court of Appeals of San Miguel, Constance Cociña, stated that “other precautionary measures, different from preventive detention, are sufficient to ensure the purposes of the investigation and of the sentence that is handed down in due course, as well as the security of society“.

“In accordance with the provisions of articles 352 and 370 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the resolution is revoked (…) that imposed preventive detention on Patricio Javier Maturana Ojeda“he added.



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