translated from Spanish: Government evaluates to give pension annuities to victims of bombing in the Metro Ecole Militaire 2014

the Government studies the history of 23 victims of the terrorist attack occurred in the Sub-Center of military school in 2014, for other Gar annuities pensions, approved the measure, subsidies would not exceed 180 pesos. The initiative came after ratifying the sentence to Juan Flores. Since then the process stays in charge of the pension unit of grace, of the Department of Social Action of the Ministry of the Interior. Representatives of the southern public prosecutor’s Office and the lawyer María Elena Santibáñez came to La Moneda last Thursday for delivering folders with tabs of those affected, detailing the injuries suffered during the attack. According to El Mercurio, the metropolitan regional prosecutor South, Raúl Guzmán, said that “independent of the consequences of the offence, a terrorist action warrants that the State be made present and repair the victims when appropriate”. He added “this is virtually the only case where was condemned by an action as a terrorist crime that applied penalties high, in particular during the term of the procedural reform criminal. Each case is evaluated on its merit, but this will no doubt mark a precedent.” In addition, the representative of victims them, María Elena Santibáñez, qualified as positive action of the Government, and he said, “the Ministry of the Interior was super receptive, pointed us out the different routes that existed, and that the will of the Government was that is” they activated all the possibilities in order to be able to compensate the victims in any way”. According to what said the lawyer, approved the measure, pensions not exceed 180 thousand dollars, in the case of the higher figures.

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