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The Senate’s special Commission on Childhood addressed this Friday the situation of the children’s home in Talcahuano, where two adolescents were shot and wounded by the Carabineros, an opportunity in which the new general director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, who considered that the institution should not intervene in these procedures.
For his part, the Minister of Justice, Hernán Larraín, He defended the complaint filed by his portfolio and questioned those who accuse an attack against the officials.
Next Monday at 11:00 a.m. an intersectoral table will be installed to address what happened this Thursday in Talcahuano, with the shooting of two minors by Carabineros, in order to generate actions to mitigate the effects on the action carried out. in these kinds of situations.
The Ministry of Social Development, the Undersecretariat for Children, the Children’s Ombudsman, the Sename and the Carabineros, among others, will participate, as reported in the Senate’s special commission on Childhood affairs, which met this Friday on the case.
In his first speech in Congress, the new Carabineros director general, Ricardo Yáñez, regretted the facts, but considered that it will be the criminal investigation and the administrative summary that the institution initiated, which will clarify whether the protocols were followed or not. In his opinion, in this type of situation, Carabineros should not intervene, but rather specialized personnel.
“There are many versions and the facts will have to establish certainty through proper procedures both in the criminal field and in the administrative field,” he said.
He added that “an administrative summary was ordered in order to establish whether the personnel acted in accordance with the regulations. This is an unfortunate fact. The causes are clearly defined in the problems that affect minors, and the Carabineros must intervene on the effects, and it is in this context that they concur ”.
The deputy director of the Carlos Macera home in Talcahuano —where the events occurred—, Marcela Miranda, explained that they do not have the tools to face these situations, often linked to mental health problems, and that sometimes the ambulances do not want to attend. He emphasized that the Carabineros arrive through the SAMU protocol.
“We do not have the devices that can take care of these children who require another type of care. The ambulance always tells us that they do not show up if the Carabineros is not present, and it should be protocol to ask the Carabineros to be present, not to escort the children or to put the children into the ambulance, but rather within the protocol it is stated that in case of any difficulty they can escort the ambulance ”, he said.
The Minister of Justice, Hernán Larraín, ruled out a premeditated action against Carabineros and defended the complaint filed by his portfolio. He said that the corresponding actions will be brought in favor of minors, whoever bothers them, that it is not an institutional attack and that police officers are also receiving defense, through the Criminal Defense Office.
“This is not about premeditated action by the minister against the Carabineros, as they have wanted to insinuate by saying that in reality only the Carabineros – according to some – can have defense and legal representation, because the others, it seems, have nothing but duties. They are subjects of the police authority ”, he declared.
Along these lines, he mentioned that “these concepts remind me of the purest expression of fascism, where rights are recognized only to the police authority and not to children and adolescents who are not unknown as subjects of law. ”.
On the subject, earlier the former chancellor and former Minister of Justice, Teodoro Ribera, on Radio Cooperativa urged to differentiate between vulnerable children and juvenile offenders, being in his opinion only the former who require protection. Later, in a public statement, he reiterated that difference, only adding that everyone has human rights that must be respected.
The Defender for Children, Patricia Muñoz, who accused prejudice and discrimination in her statements, responded to this.
“The former Chancellor and former Minister of Justice of this country should know and should know that although there are people who commit crimes, this does not allow the police to torture and mistreat or commit crimes against them. In addition to having prejudice and manifest discrimination in their expressions, it is one more manifestation of how dangerous it is that at the political level they do not understand what the protection of girls, boys and adolescents involves ”, he assured.
All this on World Children’s Day, in which the Ombudsman for Children also released its public account 2020, with a special chapter on Human Rights violations since October 18 of last year.
There are 818 complaints received for violations of minors since that date and until June 20 of this year. Half were physical attacks and more than half correspond to children and adolescents linked to Sename.
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