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Only 23 days later, Roberto Rojas Tamarín (35) was released, who was arrested on Monday in Angol, in the Araucanía Region, for his alleged participation in a robbery with intimidation and sexual abuse. The suspect had been benefited, along with 1,800 other inmates, on April 18, by the Commutative General Pardon Act, promulgated with the aim of decongesting the penal facilities before the threat of the coronavirus.
However, according to the Gendarmerie background, 21 inmates benefiting from the pardon have returned to serve their custodial sentence. Of these, 16 have committed new crimes, concentrating the majority in the Metropolitan Region.
Another of these cases occurred on May 7, in Cerrillos. That day, Marcelo Sepúlveda Sepúlveda (38) was arrested after his alleged link in a truck heist. The accused had been released on April 18, also after receiving a pardon.
The National Director of Gendarmerie, Colonel Christián Alveal, He explained that “almost a month after its entry into force, only 1% of those pardoned have returned to prison. Currently, we have intensified the daily controls, since we are not going to allow them to use this measure, which was given for sanitary reasons, to commit new crimes or break their house arrest, putting public safety at risk. ”
The rest of the inmates who had to return are completed like this: four broke the benefit, that is, they were not in their homes at the time of the control or they were identified wanting to leave the country. One of these cases occurred in the north, where a man was discovered at the border.
In Antofagasta a case occurred that caught the attention of the authorities. An inmate who had been benefited knocked on the prison door to “turn himself in,” arguing that he had no home to carry out house arrest.
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