Due to the media raid carried out by the Group of Special Police Operations (GOPE) of the Carabineros at the headquarters of the Communes Party, in the framework of the Karina Oliva case, the deputy of the Communist Party (PC) Carmen Hertz officiated at the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado , responsible for the police institution and its actions.
“In use of my supervisory powers, I officiated the Minister of the Interior to report on the shameful performance of the Gope to the local of the Comunes party in an evident act of electoral interventionism,” the deputy declared through Twitter; where he attached the letter addressed to the head of Public Security.
In the document, the communist parliamentarian pointed out that, “despite the fact that the operation is the result of a diligence requested by the Public Ministry and authorized by a judicial resolution, principles such as proportionality in the use of force must always be respected. infringement in this case is obvious “.
In this sense, he criticized the action carried out by “an elite police force with military characteristics that develops and executes special police operations in situations of crisis or risk, such as the deactivation, location and tracing of explosives, rescue of people or corpses from places of difficult access (…) situations that are radically different from the investigation initiated against members of the Communes Party “,
Carmen Hertz questioned the fact that the police “acted with lethal weapons, which is not related to the possible threat that the situation could have represented and creates an unnecessary risk of violation of the fundamental rights of civilians.”
He argued that the procedure had characteristics of a raid “typical of authoritarian regimes”, therefore “the obvious conclusion is that it is a political action with a clear aim of electoral interventionism two days before a transcendent election in the country.”
The PC deputy asked to know and clarify the terms of the request of the prosecutor of the Public Ministry, the authority of the Interior portfolio that defined that the strategy be carried out by GOPE agents and the protocol or legislation report that establishes the group specialized as the police force destined to a search of these characteristics.
