The president of the National Association of Prosecutors (ANF), Francisco Bravo, indicated that “it was a practically obligatory issue” to refer to the letter of the Puebla Group where they express solidarity with Marco Enríquez-Ominami for the SQM case and criticize the Public Ministry.
In a conversation with Channel 13, Bravo declared that “I had already given a statement in the course of the morning, that we found unacceptable these expressions of some former presidents and incumbent presidents as in the case of President Fernández. What ultimately slips, is practically an accusation of corruption towards prosecutors. To be linked or agree with former President Piñera, that this is a purely political issue.”
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“We are very impressed by the statements, and what we have all said online, without agreeing, is that this is completely inadmissible, inappropriate, unfair. We were surprised and, of course, categorically rejected it,” the ANF leader added.
On the other hand, Bravo commented that there are persecutors who “are working for many years on this” and that “we investigate facts constituting crimes, we do not look at the investiture or the condition of the accused, whether it is Mr. Enríquez-Ominami or Mr. Longueira, who are also from different sectors politically, is irrelevant.”
In that line, the president of the ANF emphasized that the prosecutors who have investigated the case are “particularly careful,” since they know not only is there “a lot of attention for the case, but eventually pressures, and that are part of the annexes of the work and one has to be prepared to overcome this type of situation.”
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