translated from Spanish: Galli announced they will appeal to court ruling after declaring arrests for illegal parties in Santiago

This day the Government announced that it will appeal to the ruling of the Septimo Tribunal de Garantía de Santiago which yesterday declared it illegal to arrest three defendants for a crime against public health after being caught along with about 20 people participating in a clandestine party in Santiago Centro.The Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, backed the police operation and stated that “police have been highly demanded during this pandemic of covid-19. Not only have they safeguarded security and public order, but they have also had to monitor the measures provided by the health authority and, therefore, the signals from all public authorities must be very clear.” That’s why Carabineros went to that place and audited. There were 19 people who were arrested, three of them who were also repeat offenders in breach of the health authority’s measures and were not convicted. We do not share the court’s ruling, we believe that Carabineros acted properly, acted in flagrance in the face of a complaint from the neighbours in the face of a fact that clearly does not comply with the measures provided by the health authority,” he added. The authority stated that “we will therefore appeal to that resolution. What we seek is that those who do not comply, who do not understand the message, will have to respond to justice ideally with precautionary measures that conform to our legal system, but who realize the seriousness of the facts at the moment when this pandemic is hitting our country hard.”

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