Lawyer confirms that the president was a victim of sexual harassment by a woman 10 years ago
Aldo Anfossi
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, p. 30
Santiago. The lawyer of the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, stated that he was a victim of sexual harassment by a woman 10 years ago, thus reacting to a judicial complaint filed against the president on September 6, 2024 and whose existence was known to the Monday night.
In this regard, the chief prosecutor of the southern Magallanes Region, Cristian Crisosto, confirmed that the president is being investigated for the crime of improper dissemination of intimate images and? He is accused in the case.
According to lawyer Jonatan Valenzuela, Between July 2013 and July 2014, Gabriel Boric Font was a victim of systematic harassment via email by an adult woman who met my client in the context of her professional practice in Punta Arenas.from which Boric is a native, 2,200 kilometers south of the capital.
He detailed that 25 emails were sent from different email addresses by the same person, including one of them sending unsolicited and unconsented images of an explicit nature..
He assured that since July 2014 there was no communication between Boric and the sender of the emails, with whom My client never had an emotional or friendship relationship.and that the first instruction he received was to deliver to the prosecutor’s office all the emails that the sender sent, which took place on October 22, 2024.
The president categorically rejects and denies the complaint and this will be demonstrated in the corresponding instance.he concluded.
Another lawyer, Jaime García, who said he advised the woman, explained that The complaint does not have to do with what the now president supposedly received in his email, but with the loss of a USB memory that the victim had on his desk when he was doing his professional law practice with Gabriel Boric, with whom he sat beside.
Of the alleged victim, 42 years old, the media The Clinic published that He has intensive probation for robbery with intimidation a month ago and went through three judicial processes this year.
The existence of this complaint against Boric, made public on Monday night in a statement from the presidency, is known when the government remains trapped in a crisis that burst on October 17, when it was revealed that the until then Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve , was criminally accused by a subordinate of raping and abusing her.
Monsalve, now in preventive detention, was Boric’s trusted man in charge of public security issues and the fight against organized crime, with broad powers over the police.
The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, admitted on Monday before an investigative commission of the Chamber of Deputies that the government erred by not dismissing Monsalve immediately after being informed of the accusation by the Investigative Police, two days before the case came to light. to the light.
Boric was compromised when trying to explain when and how he had found out and why he did not immediately distrust him, in a disastrous press conference from which it seemed to be concluded that he had protected the official to whom he entrusted the public security of the country.
