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The Justice revoked this Saturday the preventive prison that it had decreed a week ago for the former rabbi accused of having fired a gas canister that caused Fabiola Campillai’s total blindness in the framework of the social protests that began in October 2019.
The Court of Appeals of San Miguel accepted the appeal of the defense regarding the precautionary measures that should be applied to the accused while the investigation is being carried out and instead of preventive detention ordered the “total house arrest” of the accused for the “crime of injuries very serious “.
The defendant, Patricio Maturana, was arrested at dawn on August 28 as the alleged perpetrator of the serious injuries that caused Fabiola Campillai’s blindness on November 26, 2019 in Santiago, when the woman was hit in the face by a tear gas bomb while waiting for the bus.
That same day, the guarantee judge in charge, Claudio Ortega, affirmed that there was evidence to estimate Maturana’s participation in the events and ordered his preventive detention, considering that it represents “a danger to the safety of the victim and society” and giving for good the thesis of the Prosecutor’s Office, which pointed to an “intentionality” and an “abuse of their authority” at the time of the events.
However, and the Court of Appeals estimated this Saturday that “other precautionary measures are sufficient to ensure the purposes of the investigation” and left Maturana under house arrest.
Maturana was dismissed on August 14 from the Carabineros corps, where he held the position of captain, along with another officer after an internal investigation that established that neither of the two conducted inquiries to verify the state of health and provide assistance to the victim and they omitted the corresponding legal procedure.
The Public Ministry investigation went further and accused Maturana of being “the author of unlawful coercion resulting in extremely serious injuries.”
The Campillai case, along with that of the student Gustavo Gatica, who was also blind after being injured during the protests, went around the world and provoked harsh criticism from various international organizations, including the UN and Amnesty International itself, who denounced the high number of mutilated eyes in the marches.
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