Lawyer Ignatius Sapiain Martinezrepresentative of the Ministry of the Interior (complainant) at the hearing to formalize the spokesperson for the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), Hector Llaitulstated that the defendant is a “leader” who “has lost his way.”
Llaitul was formalized for violations of the State Security Law, violent usurpation, armed attacks against authority and simple theft. In this regard, the Temuco Guarantee Court decreed preventive detention for the CAM leader.
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“The Public Ministry has requested preventive detention, there is no doubt that the deprivation of liberty is one of the greatest legal rights for man. Therefore, the correct balance must be established between the measure that is decreed and the security of society. In such terms, we are going to see if it proceeds or not,” said Sapiain when he began to argue his request for preventive detention, La Tercera reports.
“Mr. Llaitul is a leader, much more than a warrior, who we can empathize in some aspects with his cause related to territorial claim. The Government has been working in that area by peaceful means, recovering land and handing it over to the Mapuche people, a people that it claims to protect”, he continued.
“But as a good leader he has lost his way, he has not realized the damage he is causing to his own people, he has not realized that a 60-year-old man who was shot and recently admitted to the Cañete Hospital is not his enemy. , does not realize that that lady who was with five children, also in the Cañete sector where subjects enter and shoot the truth that she is not your enemy and is a Mapuche just like you, “added the lawyer.
“Then we are going to see in the face of this loss of direction if this preventive detention should actually be decreed,” he added.
Sapiain represented the Government in the attempt to remain as plaintiff in the Hurricane case.
He was also a candidate for councilor for San Pedro de la Paz in 2016. He also aspired to be mayor for the same commune last year. On both occasions he presented himself as an independent.
Sapiain was also president of the Concepción Bar Association in 2017.
