The 7th Guarantee Court decreed night house arrest for the four people who were arrested for assaulting the brother of the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, Simon Boric.
Specifically, the chief prosecutor of Flagrancia Centro Norte, Macarena Canasimputed to Francisco Diaz Albornoz(33), Jesus Flor Silva (23), Esteban Munoz Duran (18) and Benjamin Fernandez Vargas (twenty); for less serious injuries after attacking the journalist from the University of Chile in the middle of Alameda.
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It should be noted that three of the accused have previous arrests for different reasons, but without criminal records.
As stated Third, at the hearing it was stated that the incident occurred after Boric went shopping at a commercial premises that was about to be looted. At the time of avoiding said action, it was that the attack against him began by the people who were demonstrating outside the National Institute.
The prosecutor showed audiovisual material that supported her accusation, reporting that the aggressors shouted: “Cuico cu… we’re going to get the… hit him harder.” It was also indicated that another subject – who is not identified – stole his mobile phone.
Macarena Cañas had requested total house arrest, arguing that Boric, when verifying injuries at the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile, identified injuries to his face, head, thigh, ankle and back. In addition, he also had a fracture of the left fourth costal arch (ribs) and a brain TBI that was rated by the reviewing specialist as “less serious.”
public defense attorney, Philip Acostawas the one who rejected Cañas’ request by indicating that “despite all this beating, the accusation is of less serious injuries and in that sense, breaking down the behavior of each of the accused, it is not possible to attribute a specific injury to the victim regarding the behavior of each of the people. By the way, even having acted together, these injuries are not serious. “
Finally, the judge Hugo Salgado, specified that for the crime that they are amputated, “an arrest is disproportionate in view of the nature of the crimes.” He pointed out that night house arrest begins at 10:00 p.m. and ends at 6:00 a.m. In addition, an investigation period of 140 days was set.
