2024-09-24 08:34:32
Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, said that the Government’s opinion on this issue is equal and that General Ricardo Yáñez must leave his post in Carabineros before October 1.
The Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, confirmed this Tuesday that the general director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez must leave his post before being formally charged for the crime of omission in unlawful coercion, in the context of the social outbreak of 2019, which is scheduled for next Tuesday, October 1.
“The Government’s criteria is very clearhas been very clear from the beginning in this matter,” said the undersecretary, and recalled that this consists of “if eventually a person who performs important functions in the Government or in a State institution is formalized, he has to leave office“.
Two weeks before the deadline for General Yáñez’s formalization for what happened when he was in charge of Order and Security of CarabinerosMonsalve addressed the issue during an interview with Radio Cooperativa.
“If the date of formalization is maintained, the Government’s criteria is very clear, and that has nothing to do with the people, it has nothing to do with the judicial process, it has nothing to do with the presumption of innocence, It has to do with the need for State institutions to function for the purposes for which they are established.“, the authority emphasized.
Along the same lines, Manuel Monsalve stressed that “The Government does not consider it appropriateunder any conditions, in any institution, under any person, that a person who performs important functions in an institution be formalized in the fulfillment of those functions“.
Monsalve: Yáñez’s departure has nothing to do with police work
Along with reiterating that the Government’s criteria on this issue “is even,” he stated that although President Gabriel Boric “has the power to eventually request the position of a general director of Carabineros, He hasn’t done it because working with Carabineros is a good job.we have good levels of coordination.”
“This has nothing to do with working with Carabineros, It has to do with a principle that the President has established for all State institutions.“, concluded the Undersecretary of the Interior.
Initially, the formalization of General Ricardo Yáñez It was scheduled for last May 7thbut the murder of three police officers in Cañete on April 27 led the Prosecutor’s Office to request that it be postponed until October 1.