According to Leblanc, when the attack occurred, the mediation team went to the school to accompany the mother of a child, who had reported being a victim of discrimination.
Officials came to investigate a complaint of discrimination. Photo: Courtesy
Two days after declaring Justice of the Peace Aminta Castro a “hostile official” and “hindering”, the Ombudsman Eduardo Leblanc did it again, but this time with the director of the Republic of Italy School in San Miguelito, Melida Asprilla, after she allegedly physically and verbally assaulted a mediation team from the Ombudsman’s Office.
He assured that the officials and the child’s mother “received an unpleasant, hostile, rude and very predisposed treatment” for which he concluded that “Professor Asprilla does not want to collaborate with the legal and constitutional functions of the Ombudsman’s Office, which It implies that the fundamental rights and guarantees of the people who come to our institution are affected”.
The Ombudsman warned in the Resolution that director Asprilla breached Law 33 of 2013 on Transparency and Access to Information and the Criminal Code, as well as Law 7 that creates the Ombudsman’s Office where it is empowered to receive all complaints, oral or written, transmitted by any means, coming from anonymous or identified sources.
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