Minister Jackson defends amnesty project: “There is no crime that has been against people”

The Minister of the Segpres, Giorgio Jackson, referred to the great urgency that the Government of President Gabriel Boric put into the amnesty project for the prisoners of the social outbreak. As a result of this, the head of the portfolio defended the measure, alluding to the fact that today it is “more limited, more transversal and could generate a greater consensus.”
In an interview with Radio Universo, Jackson commented on the difficulties that the process has had, where they have had to make a cadastre of the people who, being with precautionary measures that have not yet had their corresponding trial.
“There is a cadastre of about 50 people in pretrial detention, who have not yet had trials many of them, it has been more than a year, almost two years without obtaining a trial, therefore, there is a situation that undoubtedly to anyone who would be involved in these would generate impotence, feeling that there is no access to justice, because many times these cases without having a higher level of evidence, it keeps people deprived of liberty because of the connotation that some of these crimes have had,” he said.
In the same vein, the minister stated that modifications were made to the project, removing from the catalog of crimes those related to the control of weapons by incendiary elements.
“The people who are at least today with this project that came out of the Constitution commission with a broader agreement than the one generated by the people who promoted it, today left out of the catalog of various crimes related to gun control that was one of the most sensitive aspects precisely because of the incendiary elements. Today the project is more limited, it is more transversal and therefore, it could generate a greater consensus,” he said.
On the other hand, the head of the Segpres said that they seek to repair the damages, both of those who lost their source of employment, and those who were affected by what happened during the context of the social outbreak.
“There is a situation that is often humanitarian, we want at the same time while generating reparation to those who have lost their source of employment many times and that work that the Ministry of Economy is doing to support those who may have suffered some destruction, looting, even a fire, at the same time also be able to repair the different stages of the wounds generated by the social outbreak, “- Addressed.
Regarding the crimes that are included in the pardon, Jackson explained that people have been persecuted for crimes to supermarket chains that “did not exceed 30 thousand pesos, we are talking, from our point of view, that these were not matters that affected national security and that is why we withdrew the complaints, many of them for the internal security of the state.”
“There is a more complex situation than the headline can cover where many times it is caricatured and said ‘today what they are planning with the pardon law is that they want to release people who almost killed someone’. No, there is no crime that has been against people, at least in what is being discussed today to be processed in the Senate Chamber,” he said.
“We believe that it was an important signal to be able to advance in a project that Senator Fabiola Campillai herself asked us to discuss,” he added.
“Among the people who are in pretrial detention today, there is none who is for a robbery in an uninhabited place or what is called ‘looting of an SME’, none of the people who are and who could be released today,” he concluded.

Original source in Spanish