translated from Spanish: Chadwick defender claims the charge was a “human sacrifice” and does not rule out recourse to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Last week, by 23 votes in favor and 18 against, the Senate passed both chapters of the constitutional indictment against former Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick, representing a fatal blow to the paprika [r] outside public life for the next five years the former strong man of the two administrations of Sebastián Piñera and cousin of the Mandatario.
The story doesn’t end there, and today the lawyer of the former minister, Luis Hermosilla, assured that they will not be left to be crossed. In an interview with La Tercera, Chadwick’s defender stated that they will exhaust all criminal instances to reverse the sanction.
“There are precedents of senators who have resorted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, arguing that sanctions like these violate and violate the Charter of Human Rights. We are looking at the paths we are going to follow in this area and these include a presentation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. We are not going to give up any rights in the face of an injustice of this magnitude,” Hermosilla said.
“It was always known that there was a politicization in the decision, that it had no closeness to justice and that it even went so far as to not keep certain minimal forms,” he added asked about the reasons that led the former interior minister to be tried by the Congress.
Under that premise, Hermosilla assured that Andrés Chadwick would not only be the scapegoat of the government, but of the entire political class.
“In the Session of the Senate, when the accusation was failed, we were in the presence of a human sacrifice, the figure and the person of Andrew Chadwick applied an excessive sanction, without the corresponding foundations, was sacrificed. Because what was done was to impute him, as responsible for a crisis that, on the very foundations they were wielding, was much bigger and deeper than what can satisfy the sentence or condemn someone. In addition, there was the spread of some senators to assert completely false facts,” he said.
Finally, the lawyer noted that “for example, they voted in the room senators who the day before, when the defense’s arguments were heard, when Andrés Chadwick himself was heard, were not even found in the country. The right to be heard is the basis of due process.”
“As a lawyer, you don’t need a duck. No groups to back up. You build arguments. In the way that the current Senate understands a political indictment, it makes the arguments raised have no place to be weighed. They all came with their speeches made,” he concluded.

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