translated from Spanish: Deputy Soto criticizes “unconditional” support from Minister Pérez to Carabineros

“It is not for the Minister of the Interior to make unconditional support to the police when they are being investigated for police abuse or serious human rights violations,” PS Deputy Leonardo Soto said after Secretary of State Victor Perez turned in support of Carabineros in the context of the investigation of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Attorney General for the possible responsibilities of seven active high-command generals in the social outburst of 18-O.A. legislator’s trial, “nothing justifies in a democracy that Chilean police have used their weaponry and their riot shotgun to drop balinese or tear bombs directly at the body or face of thousands of Chileans and unarmed Chileans.” There is nothing to justify that Fabiola Campillai has lost her vision at the hands of the police, or that there are more than 4,000 serious injuries as a product of police action, or that there are more than a thousand people who claim to have been tortured in the social outburst. What Minister Pérez should do is fully support the investigations of both the Contraloria and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to elucidate everything that happened,” the mp emphasized. The Member assured that “it is not for you (Minister of the Interior) to make unconditional support for the action of the policemen with this terrible and tragic result of human lives. You do democracy a skinny favor by unconditionally backing the police when the action of several carabineros de Chile members is still being investigated in these tragic events.” According to Soto, “he transforms him not only into someone who intervenes or interferes with a legal investigation but transforms him into an accomplice and instigator of future human rights violations of this institution.”

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