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The mea culpa It is still pending in the round of interviews with the media that the General Director of Carabineros Ricardo Yáñez has deployed, despite the insistence on the cases of human rights violations in which the institution has been involved since the social outbreak.
Yesterday, The Mercury published an interview with the police chief, where he pointed out that, although “we must, as an institution, mea culpa, without a doubt ”, he avoided at the same time condemning a priori the actions of the uniformed men who marked two milestones of national interest, such as the Pío Nono case, which ended with a young man on the bed of the Mapocho river, and the Talcahuano case, which resulted in two minors shot in a police operation.
Interviewed in CNN Chile Today, Yáñez was specifically consulted on the cases of people who became victims of eye trauma, as happened with Gustavo Gatica or Fabiola Campillai during the social outbreak.
Asked if he is available to visit them, as a gesture of the institution towards them, Yáñez pointed out that “I have no problem interviewing them.” But when asked about whether he would ask for their forgiveness, the replacement for the questioned Mario Rozas was emphatic in pointing out that “I cannot ask for forgiveness for situations that are being investigated and that have to be resolved with the courts.”
“I can deeply regret and I can empathize for the pain they and their families feel, I can do everything on my part to bring peace of mind to all those people who were affected in a context that was very, very complex,” added the general who took office on November 19.
In the same interview, Yáñez pointed out that the Carabineros has done everything possible to collaborate with justice. “As an institution we have cooperated in everything and we have made efforts to deliver all the information that we have available,” he said.
When taking stock of the state in which he found the institution, the new general director of the uniformed police assumed that “when there is a lot of questioning and permanently situations that affect decisions, there is a feeling of wear and tear.”
In any event, he insisted – as Rozas had pointed out when he was in command – in the Carabineros “we were not prepared to experience the levels of violence that occurred for more than 100 days.”
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