The President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, criticized this Sunday the presence of the former Archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati, at the ecumenical prayer held yesterday at the Metropolitan Cathedral.
During a speech in La Pintana, the highest authority in the country pointed out that “there is something that bothered me yesterday to see in the Cathedral, it bothered me to see Mr. Ezzati, it bothered me to see people who have acted as accessories for serious crimes against children and girls”.
“I did not notice it yesterday (the presence of Ezzati in the Cathedral), but they made me see it and I want to say that we cannot continue to normalize these things, because here and in this Government boys and girls will be present (… .) that boys and girls feel part of what we are building and that never again, never again, their rights be violated, their trust abused, anywhere, by anyone, no one has that right”, emphasized the Leader.
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Nine victims reporting sexual abuse in the Salesian Congregation between 1973 and 2009 sued the former Archbishop of Santiago Ricardo Ezzati (2010-2019), for the crime of illicit association to “silence” the harassment, which were declared admissible by the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago. Ezzati resigned in 2019 from the Archdiocese of Santiago after he was accused of covering up cases of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.
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The Head of State participated this Sunday in a cultural act in La Pintana for the change of command. There, the country’s highest authority issued a speech in which he stated that “when we have this sense of complicity with the peoples of Chile, it seems that everything is possible.”
In addition, the President thanked “with a very emotional heart all the cultural workers who have been abandoned by the State. They will be protagonists in this government”.
“As we said on Friday, very difficult times will come. Politics has many pettiness aspects. I ask you to help us not to forget why we are here,” she added.
He also indicated that “we have to work specifically so that at the end of the day we have improved the quality of life in our town.”
“We are part of a generation that a couple of years ago said loud and clear that they wanted to change things,” he added.
