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The The Government appealed this Friday to the resolution of the Seventh Oral Criminal Court (TOP) of Santiago, which at the beginning of November acquitted the only two accused of the fire at the Pedrero Metro station, occurred during the social outbreak of October 18, 2019.
The judge José Pérez it took for granted that the incident was caused by third parties. However, when proving the participation of those investigated, imputed by the Eastern Prosecutor’s Office, it was pointed out that “the test given to prove the participation and it becomes a serious problem of legality, coherence and faith in what it was intended to prove” and ordered the freedom of both.
“After analyzing in detail the text of the sentence that acquitted the defendants for the Pedreros Metro fire, it has been decided to file appeal for annulment taken care of the infractions that can be noticed in the different reasonings of the magistrates “, says the document presented / displayed by the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security, according to slogan The Third PM.
“The ruling warns that the main argument of the TOP magistrates was to decide to expel the main evidence from the accusers, given that they consider that the errors that exist in the chain of custody have made it illegal,” the document adds.
Wallet ensures that contrary to what the judge stated, “in the process there has been no illicit evidence, only errors in the forms of the chains of custody. There are no fundamental guarantees violated, since the defense was able to carry out its technical work in a flat and effective manner. “
In addition to the acquittal of Daniel Morales (35 years old) and his teenage nephew, the youngest with initials BS (16), the TOP of Santiago rejected a civil lawsuit and the release of both defendants, who had been in preventive detention for almost a year, was ordered.
The teenager had been arrested on November 7, 2019 and his uncle on December 13, and the Prosecutor’s Office requested 10 years of provisional internment and 20 years in prison, respectively.
