Minister Giorgio Jackson reiterated the Government’s position once morest using the State Security Law, following the controversial statements by Héctor Llaitul. “This is not a government that is going to pursue ideas and that is a line that goes down from the President onwards,” he assured.
Minister Jackson reaffirmed the Government’s refusal to file a complaint once morest Hector Llaitul, following a controversial interview.
Let us remember that the CAM leader recognized the use of violence as a political action, through sabotage.
“Our priority is to channel violence into sabotage, into very well-directed sabotage. Towards inputs, towards machinery and for that reason (…) what the media should portray is that we respect the workers”, he explained.
“It is not an issue of leaving them without work or burning the machine of their owners, it has nothing to do with directly affecting them, it is an issue that we defend in this way, of our demands to put a stop to extractivism, to stop so much devastation and so much injustice once morest our people,” added Llaitul.
Abbott for Llaitul’s statements: “A complaint is required by the Government”
After his words, the National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott, He assured that to initiate an investigative line, the Government must first present a complaint or complaint.
“That is a sovereign decision of the Government, regarding which it is not up to me to give an opinion,” said the head of the Public Ministry.
However, from La Moneda they ruled out filing another lawsuit once morest Héctor Llaitul.
As said by the Government spokesperson, Camila Vallejo, any fact constituting a crime will be added to the legal action filed in 2018 by the previous government.
Jackson reiterates Llaitul’s position of not “pursuing ideas”
This position was defended by the Minister of the Segpres, Giorgio Jackson, who insisted that they will not file legal actions to “pursue ideas.”
He said so in an interview with CNN Chile, where he emphasized that “if there is a fire, an arson attack, an attack on people, the use of weapons and that there is evidence to be able to make a complaint, this Government is going to do it.”
“What we have not done, as the President said, this is not a Government that is going to pursue ideas and that is a line that goes down from the President onwards”, he sentenced.
“That is very typical and the line is very thin in authoritarian regimes, when what is done is to try to persecute, criminalize, for what a person has said,” he added.
“It is not healthy for governments to be the ones who have to criminally prosecute people,” Jackson insisted.
In any case, he qualified his statements by assuring that “these are facts that the Prosecutor’s Office will have to investigate and obviously we do not share and repudiate those statements.”
