Noise caused the absence until yesterday of the former Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Ricardo Martínez, at the summons of Judge Romy Rutherford to testify in the Milicogate case. His resignation from the highest position of the military institution had to do with collaboration in this process, according to his own statements, however he did not attend, generating widespread criticism, one of them being that of the socialist deputy Leonardo Soto.
“The behavior of the now former Commander in Chief of the Army, Ricardo Martínez, is absolutely incomprehensible, because he said that he was resigning from his position as Commander in Chief to be able to face justice, submit to it, collaborate with the investigation and the first thing he does it is refusing to go to testify, invoking that he has a military privilege that would consist in the judge having to go to his home to take a statement”, he commented.
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He also added that “the truth is that the military caste is used to procedural privileges like that that no one else has. Today he is an individual like anyone else and I assure you that any Chilean who is not going to testify will issue an arrest warrant, because he is a kind of contempt of justice. But he seems to live in a military bubble full of privileges, and it seems to him that being retired, ceasing to be in uniform, in the world of private individuals, he would retain the privilege of forcing a judge to go take a statement at his address and to force her, she simply refuses to go and declare in open contempt of justice.”
“I believe that an offensive has begun by this former commander in chief, by Juan Miguel Fuentealba and others, to block, hinder and slow down the judicial investigation. It seems that a new illicit association has been formed among all the former commanders-in-chief, to go to the constitutional court as Fuentealba’s defense announced, as Martínez’s defense will probably also do,” he added.
Following this line, he maintained that “today justice faces powerful enemies, who seek judicial impunity in the face of the most serious crimes of corruption that Chilean history has known in public administration, I hope that justice prevails.”
Finally, he stated that “the judge is going to have to make a decision that may seem radical, but it is justified. I believe that the judge should, in order to make her judicial authority prevail over accused rebels who refuse to respect her authority, should issue an arrest warrant and bring him to court, accompanied by the appropriate police, as she would with any Chilean. or Chilean”:
