During the afternoon of this Tuesday the seven accused of the alleged crime of threats against the prosecutor Ximena Chong They were transferred to the Santiago 1 Prison to serve the preventive detention order.
It was during the morning of this Tuesday that the detention controls were carried out, which ended with the transfer of the first four accused, the remaining three being controlled this afternoon.
Let us remember that in the first instance ruling, Only one of the eight formalized was in preventive detention for finding a UZI submachine gun at his home, while the rest had been left with a monthly signature and a ban on approaching the victim and his family.
However, this Tuesday the Court of Appeals of Santiago, in a divided ruling, It revoked the precautionary measure of first instance and ruled the preventive detention of the remaining seven, considering that the accused are a danger to the victim’s safety.
Prosecutor Francisco Jacir was the one who appealed to the resolution of the 7th Guarantee Court of Santiago, considering that the crime for which the defendants are investigated is more serious, since his actions were directed against a persecutor.
Therefore, after learning that the request was accepted, he emphasized that the court took into account the type of crime, the legal asset protected and the way in which it was committed. such as “the previous meeting, the planning that the accused carry out to commit this crime.”
In effect, he considered that it is “a serious and credible threat, accredited in all the evidence that we have compiled in this time,” he closed.
Chong began to receive threats after the formalization of the Carabinero Sebastián Zamora, accused of causing the fall of a minor from the Pío Nono Bridge to the bed of the Mapocho River.
After the instance in which the preventive detention of the policeman was decreed, the defendants met in an office in Las Condes and then moved in vehicles and motorcycles to Chong’s house. At the scene they delivered a letter threatening the son of the prosecutor.
This article describes an ongoing legal process
There is a possibility that the charges will be dismissed at the end of the investigation, therefore The accused should NOT be considered as guilty until Justice dictates sentence against him.
(Article 04 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)
