As a defendant, the former Minister of the Interior during the administration of Sebastián Piñera, Andrés Chadwick, testified before the Central North High Complexity prosecutor, Ximena Chong, as a result of the investigation for crimes against humanity and responsibility of the high command of registered Carabineros during the social outbreak.
According to slogan Thirdthe instance took place last Friday, March 31, in an office in the Vitacura commune, where the persecutor asked a total of 132 questions to the former Secretary of State.
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In the first place, he was consulted about the functions he carried out with respect to public order during the demonstrations of the social revolt. In this sense, he indicated that “the situation that occurs as of October 18 is a completely unprecedented situation and I point it out because it is difficult to find it in more recent periods. It was a public order situation that caused surprise in the government, Carabineros, and all citizens. It was a situation we had never experienced before.”
In view of the above, he assured that former President Piñera “was forced to take (measures) regarding the superiority of violence. The way in which the government or the president addresses the issue of this uncontrolled public order and unusual violence, is to resort to a State of Exception”.
Along the same lines, Chadwick maintained that the then Undersecretary of the Interior, Rodrigo Ubilla, informed him that the Carabineros did not have “the possibility or capacity to be able to cover the Metro stations due to a staffing problem. Given this and given the imminent risks, the President decides to resort to the State of Emergency”.
Subsequently, the persecutor from Alta Complejidad Centro Norte asked him about the actions of the Carabineros during the demonstrations. In this sense, she assured that police officers were ordered to make the information transparent and to enforce the use of force with “responsibility” and “respect for human rights.”
For this, he revealed that he asked for “detailed information on the people injured, detained, the delivery of information to the Prosecutor’s Office, how many internal investigations were being carried out, that they provide me with all the information that would allow me to form an opinion on the situation and how was being carried out and controlled”.
Regarding whether or not he was aware of the results that the Carabineros commissioned on the content of the ammunition used in the riot guns, he stated that “no. I always assumed and understood that the ammunition, as was always pointed out, was made of rubber. The general He did not inform me of anything previously, I learned the results from the media”.
“It creates a profound situation for me…contrary to everything I have wanted to do in my life, that situations arise in which I have not acted correctly in accordance with the law, the rule of law. It’s like I have been trained, so it disturbs me,” Chadwick said.
