The Court of Appeals of Santiago declared inadmissible the appeal for preventive protection filed by the direct general of Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, once morest the Public Ministry and with which he sought to avoid the formalization of next May 7.

The appeal court did not admit General Yáñez’s appeal, arguing that the purpose of the constitutional action is to control the legality of the process and that the background information presented does not constitute a complaint of facts.

Likewise, he considered that the requirement would distort the purpose of the figure of the amparo appeal.

In this way, Yáñez begins to run out of letters to avoid its formalization, which will take place on May 7 in the Seventh Guarantee Court: at the hearing his predecessor, Mario Rozas, and the former deputy director Diego Olate will also be charged, all for the omissive crime of illegitimate coercion resulting in serious injuries and homicide, committed between October 2019 and March 31, 2020, a time when the current director general served as national director of Order and Security.

In this way, Yáñez might be publicly forced to step aside from the institution in May, just months before concluding his four-year period as director general in November.