translated from Spanish: Don Francisco and accusations of abuse against Renato Poblete: “People have a double personality, and one is not able to scrutinize it”

In a conversation with La Tercera, Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, referred to his relationship with the deceased priest, Renato Poblete, accused of sexual abuse, with whom they had a relationship. The TV driver stated that “I (i am) surprised, and all the people around me, who knew him, who worked with him and with the Home of Christ many times, are absolutely surprised at what we have heard.” “Well, in this case, we have to believe that justice is going to do the right thing, but we never imagined it, we never thought it, it never crossed our minds,” added the host of the Telethon.” he also told how he participated in several dinners of bread and wine from The Home of Christ that and organized Poblete. “I collaborated with the bread and wine dinners of the Home of Christ many times, and I felt it a man very committed to his cause, I felt that he was a man who fought hard to advance his organization. It’s a total surprise to me,” he insisted. Don Francisco also stated that “what the newspaper says, the accusation that is made of him, is a person that I never knew. I met a Renato Poblete, a kind, good-looking priest, concerned with the poor, that’s how I saw him, worried about his institution. It can happen sometimes that people have a double personality, and one is not able to scrutinize it.” Finally to close the subject, Kreutzberger stated that “well, I say I knew him quite a bit, I shared with him at many of his bread and wine events; when he asked me, at every opportunity I talked to him, I never noticed… because I could say ‘yes, I thought…’. No, it would be a lie. For me what they say about Father Renato Poblete, that’s a Poblete I didn’t know.”

Original source in Spanish