“It is always convenient to have an international criterion or standard.” The senator of the Socialist Party (PS), Juan Luis Castro, valued the universal criteria used by the UN regarding the defense of human rights in the framework of the legislative discussion in Chile to grant greater powers to the Carabineros. This in the midst of the legislative frenzy that is taking place in the National Congress with the discussion of various projects related to public safety, initiated after the death of the posthumous major petty officer Rita Olivares.
Senator Castro addressed the UN declaration, after outlining the idea of establishing a State of Exception and curfew in the Metropolitan Region in the face of what he considered to be communes “captured by crime.”
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It is worth mentioning that the United Nations issued an alert on the “privileged legitimate defense” established by the Naín-Retamal Law, which will be voted on next week in the Upper House, stating that it “does not conform to international human rights law.”
“I support the State of Exception in the Metropolitan Region. If it includes a curfew, why not? There are communes captured by crime, there needs to be a powerful deterrent factor,” Senator Castro said a few days ago on Twitter, although the initiative was emphatically ruled out by La Moneda.
In any case, the socialist legislator appreciated that the UN establishes that when the life of a person is at risk, be it the policeman himself, a citizen or a third party, there is the right to intervene and use force to neutralize the production of a attack that costs the life of a person, and that “we must take it into consideration”.
“Today, in Chile, the situation is the other way around,” said Senator Castro. In his opinion, he is a policeman, as a defendant, who has almost no right to use force. “That must end,” he sentenced, along with pointing out that “there must be no abuses either.”
“Nor can it be that someone becomes a people’s commissar and does whatever they want,” he said.
On this level, the senator appreciated that the UN has a criterion that is not made for our country, but is universal, and now that Chile is legislating and on Tuesday it will vote on the Nain-Retamal Law, he stated that this criterion should be kept in mind “In order to put a fair and balanced point to the use of force, knowing that today what it takes is to empower the police to do it correctly.”
