“Yesterday I felt really bad.” That was the entry with which Senator Fabiola Campillai described a situation that marked the process of processing the bill that seeks to establish an amnesty for prisoners of the social outbreak, and specifically a conversation she had with RN Senator Manuel José Ossandon.
According to the parliamentarian – who gave the statements in an activity at the Constitutional Convention – her counterpart from Renovación Nacional would have conditioned her vote in favor in exchange for her supporting the release of prisoners from Punta Peuco, who are serving sentences for crimes against humanity.
“Yesterday they disrespected me terribly,” said the senator, who added that “I was disrespected because an honorable police officer blinded me.” He questioned whether the cases of people who are being investigated in the context of the outbreak were placed on the same level as people convicted of crimes against human rights, stressing that the prisoners of October 2019 “have not even done anything alongside those murderers who now they are dying, but they never thought about the suffering when they killed and raped without any conscience”.
“My vote for the Amnesty law was conditioned by asking me to ask for a pardon for the prisoners of Punta Peuco (…) I was told that their families were suffering, but what about the hundreds of mothers who are still looking for their children, and that these men who are dying in Punta Peuco have never had a drop of repentance and have never said where their bodies are,” Campillai stressed.
Asked about who raised the above, she pointed out that it was “Senator Ossandón. He and I believe that the complete right wants the freedom of those criminals. I was told that I am a symbol and that I would skip perhaps how many things asking for that freedom of those prisoners who don’t deserve it, I would never ask for it because it would disrespect an entire country”.
Senator Campillai, furthermore, in the framework of the discussion at the Convention, asked the president of the instance, María Elisa Quinteros, “that the Senate be eliminated, please, we don’t need it, the laws are trapped there and we don’t They want to repair everything that happened.
