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The Public Ministry expressed its support to the country’s prosecutors and ratified its commitment “to the protection of the fundamental rights of people, through investigations that provide full guarantees of objectivity, seriousness and transparency, which implies prosecuting all acts that have the character of a crime, regardless of who commits it. “
This written statement comes after the criticism of the prosecutor Ximena Chong, who formalized a Carabineros official who threw a 16-year-old youth towards the Mapocho River last Friday at the Pío Nono bridge.
For example, Senator Iván Moreira (UDI) accused her of being a “political activist” and of having a different conduct with respect to the cases she is carrying out.
Added to this are the statements of the Minister of Health Enrique Paris, who gave his arguments for not delivering the emails requested by the North Central Prosecutor’s Office in the framework of the investigation into the deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that the request of the Public Ministry “is indiscriminate, imprecise and of an excessive scope” and also “has hindered the performance of the ministry that I direct.”
In a statement, the agency described as “unacceptable the intimidation of any of our prosecutors -as well as any citizen- and we reject in the most energetic way that it is intended to frighten them, by any person or medium. We note that, where appropriate, we will urge that all necessary legal actions be taken “.
In the statement, they stated that “the actions of the Chilean prosecutors are based on objective antecedents, as a result of the investigations carried out together with the police. These investigations are always subject to hierarchical and jurisdictional control and, therefore, beyond all arbitrariness”.
“In this context – they add – we demand respect for the function that the Constitution and the law entrust us and that constitutes a fundamental pillar of the rule of law and the protection of the fundamental rights of citizens.”
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