Felipe Berríos’ lawyer: I will not allow his image to be unfairly damaged

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Julian Lopezdefense attorney for Felipe Berríos, maintained that the complaints against the priest have a media dimension more than judicial and that he is not going to allow himself to be reviled.

in conversation with Thirdthe jurist pointed out that “the reasons why we decided to take this to the civil courtsand that Felipe Berríos explains very well in the statement he sentis that he wants to be judged like any Chileanwithout privileges, by the civil courts and in a procedure that is as transparent as possible and not in a secret procedure that is applied only to priests and that generates a lot of mistrust in public opinion“.

“The Canonical procedure has long been seen as the symbol of the Church’s protection from abuse and it is a procedure where no one will ever know what Felipe Berríos was accused of, what background information was gathered in his favor or against him, nor what will be the reasons for the decision that will be made in the Vatican, at 15 thousand kilometers away. This is not a procedure to which an innocent person may wish to be subjected.“, he explained.

“I have Of course, up to this point, the case has a much more media dimension than a judicial one.“, indicated López, adding that “first, the complaint is brought before a religious congregation that, as we all know, the first thing it does is issue a public statement saying that Felipe Berríos is being investigated for ‘acts of sexual connotation‘, this can be very misleading, because it allows the reader to imagine what they want because that concept is extremely broad“.

“I am defending a priest and he has asked me to be extremely careful in protecting the identity of the complainant (…) Felipe Berríos has demanded that care of me, so I am not going to say anything that attempts against it and, therefore, supposed, I am not going to revictimize anyone, but this does not mean that I am going to allow them to insult him or to try to unfairly damage his imageBerrios explained.

I have the right to defend Felipe Berríos y I will not allow the interests of the complainant to be used as a pretext to prevent him from exercising all his rights, including the right to rectify any false information that is disclosed,” closed the defense attorney.

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