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The Public Ministry announced the opening of eight investigations against the truckers’ union, as a result of the cuts produced on different routes in the country due to the mobilization that heavy vehicle carriers have been carrying out since Thursday. The National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, gave some details of the investigation – which was motivated by the complaint of a deputy – and emphasized that the invocation of the State Security Law, requested by opposition parliamentarians, is the exclusive responsibility of the Government of Sebastián Piñera.
“I received the complaint from the deputy Gabriel Ascencio, who also attached a record of images, videos and photographs, in which situations that could constitute a crime are described according to the new regulations that penalize those who impede the passage either on routes, highways, etc. “Abbott told La Tercera, pointing out that the most important thing for the Prosecutor’s Office is that the principle of equality before the law be observed. “That is why I sent the letters so that the regional prosecutors, if there is merit, pursue all conduct that constitutes a crime, regardless of whether it affects a student, a worker, a businessman or truck driver “, sentenced the persecutor.
Abbott explained that they were waiting for the police to inform them of these situations and recalled that recently the crime that penalizes the interruption of the free movement of people or vehicles, either on public roads or routes, through violence was incorporated into the Criminal Code or intimidation also called “Anti-Barrier Law”.
“In the images that Congressman Ascencio attached, he realized acts of this nature and that is why we adopted this determination in eight regions,” Abbott reiterated to the press. In that sense, consulted by the State Security Law, the National Prosecutor was emphatic in recalling that this is an exclusive attribution of the supreme government. “And they will have to decide if the hypotheses that this crime establishes occur and we will act when those complaints are presented”.
It is worth mentioning that deputies of the Communist Party rejected the stoppage and blocking of the routes by the truckers, qualifying them as “terrorist and seditious acts”, for which they called on the Government to invoke the State Internal Security Law and detain the leaders of this mobilization.
For its part, the Government insists on a two-way strategy towards this sector: on the one hand, “understand” their demands, as stated by Minister Desbordes, who argued that “in their shoes, what they are asking for is understandable”; but at the same time condemn the measure of force as expressed by Minister Bellolio when insisting that “when they put an ultimatum, a line of what is not due is crossed.”
Of course, the Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, ruled out applying the State Security Law in the context of the indefinite national strike initiated by the truck drivers. “Despite the difficulties presented, normality has been maintained in the food and transport chain,” said the Secretary of State, this Thursday. And regarding the request to invoke the law, also requested by Senator Felipe Harboe (PPD), the Minister of the Interior pointed out that “those who most ask for this rule did not do so when they were in government.” Pérez assured that “we have seen that violence is not what has prevailed” and that only “there were intermittent blockades or specific situations.”
José Villagrán, president of Fedesur, told Radio Biobío that they are concerned when parliamentarians worry about “other things” and do not give importance to what it means for all of Chile, “that criminals disappear once and for all.”
Fedesur held an emergency meeting in La Araucanía as a result of the deputy Gabriel Ascencio’s complaint and, faced with this, Villagrán mentioned that “all we do is park our trucks on the berm. Suddenly it has happened that there are so many trucks and no We have been able to accommodate ourselves, but has it been for how long? 10 minutes, 15 minutes? ”he said.
“Here no ambulance has had problems to move freely. The medicines for those who go to the hospital, they go to the pharmacy, they have not had problems either. The oxygen that goes to the hospital has not had problems either. There are no problems of lack of fuel in Temuco And that’s because we truckers have allowed trucks with fuel to pass. So, don’t accuse us of something we haven’t done, “said Fedesur’s boss.
Additionally, he added that “we truckers are going to stay here until the Government restores the rule of law” and affirmed that the mobilization continues indefinitely until Monday.
The truckers union in the Valparaíso region also confirmed the continuation of the stoppage indefinitely.
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