2023-08-19 07:28:14
Lawyer Jose Miguel Barahonawho represented the doctor Patricio Silva Garinwho died in May 2019, referred to the Supreme Court ruling that acquitted this Friday his client and the other five convicted of the death of the former president Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-1970), in a final judgment that considered that there is no record to prove his homicide.
“Although for this defender and, of course, also for his family there is tremendous satisfaction upon hearing this Supreme Court decision, I also there is a mixed feelingbecause, as is known, Dr. Silva Garín died while convicted in the first instancesaid the lawyer.
It added that “it has been the higher courts of Justice -the Court of Appeals and, finally, the Most Excellent Supreme Court- who they righted that tremendous injustice committed with Dr. Silva Garín and, of course, with the rest of those involved in this process”.
In January 2019 the judge Alexander Madrid concluded, in the first instance, the presence of chemical substances in the body of the former president and classified the crime as simple homicide.
The magistrate sentenced 10 years of prison in its minimum degree to Silva Garín as the author of the assassination of Frei Montalva, the highest penalty in the sentence.
The doctor, in an interview, called the verdict “nonsense, it is completely wrong.” He even assured that the former president “He died of a disease that could not be fixedThat’s the only truth here.”
However, two years later, the Justice dealt the first judicial setback to the conclusion of Madrid: it rejected its decision and acquitted the defendants, three of whom died during the processing of the case.
According to that revocation ruling, which this Friday was revalidated by the Supreme Court, death occurred from a complication of his surgery.
The highest court pointed to the “methodology” of the doctor Laura Börgelthe expert who analyzed the mortal remains of Frei Montalva in the first instance process and who revealed the alleged presence of waist in your body, a heavy and extremely toxic metal used in rodenticides and pesticides.
“The methodology used by the expert Ms. Börgel was not consistent with the conclusions and results she reached“The resolution upheld.
“I hold to the deepest conviction that my father’s death was not a natural death,” expressed in a statement Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagleson of the former president and also former president (1994-2000).
The national board of Christian Democratic Party also reaffirmed his “conviction” regarding the assassination of Frei Montalva.
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