Former policeman charged with blind Gustavo Gatica will remain in preventive prison



[ad_1]

The Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago ratified the preventive detention for the former Carabineros officer accused of blinding Gustavo Gatica in November 2019, in the framework of the wave of demonstrations after the social outbreak.

Claudio Crespo – dismissed from the Carabineros in July – is charged with unlawful coercion and extremely serious injuries, crimes for which he must continue in prison.

The court rejected on Tuesday the defense request of the former lieutenant colonel of Special Forces, who sought to reverse the precautionary measure that was decreed on August 31.

In that formalization hearing, Judge Marcia Figueroa considered that “the accused, abusing his position, with the intention of punishing, fired the riot gun directly at the upper third of the protesters’ bodies (…) with mood to cause serious injury and inflict pain on a person“.

Earlier that day, he was detained by the PDI Human Rights Brigade at his home in the Ñuñoa commune; distribution that had to “make expert reports never seen in Chile” to find him as responsible.

This afternoon, Gustavo Gatica celebrated on Instagram that “justice acted in a good way.” The student highlighted that “the criminal stays in jail while the investigation lasts”.



[ad_2]