2024-09-02 02:55:36
Lawyer Juan Pablo Hermosilla requested that the chats on his brother Luis’ cell phone be opened, in order to verify which authorities were asking him for favors.
Juan Pablo Hermosilla, defense attorney for his brother Luis Hermosilla in the so-called Audios Case, asked to open his client’s cell phone for the purpose of Check the chats to find out who asked the professional for favors who remains in preventive detention.
This was stated by the lawyer in an interview he gave to Radio Infinita, after the Fourth Guarantee Court of Santiago decreed said precautionary measure for both Luis Hermosilla and the lawyer Leonarda Villalobos.
Along with questioning the statements of the Bar Association, the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá; and President Gabriel Boric after the court’s decision, Juan Pablo Hermosilla said that opening his brother’s cell phone would allow us to know “Which prosecutors asked favors from Luis Hermosilla. Let’s see which ministers asked favors from Luis Hermosilla“.
“What if there are prosecutors who are related to the case who have asked him for favors as well?“he asked next.
He then stated that “what is important is not the leaks. When we get into the judicial part, what is important is what happens in the court hearings, because in the rest there is not only no control, but I have the impression that this has become a kind of witch hunt.“.
Along these lines, Juan Pablo Hermosilla stated that now the prosecutors “They use Luis as a scapegoat for a system from which everyone profited”.
The bond between Luis Hermosilla and Miguel Crispi
Although he is not a minister, among those close to the Audios Case it is estimated that Juan Pablo Hermosilla’s statements regarding searching the chats for the Authorities who asked his brother for favors could point to the head of advisors on the Second Floor of La Moneda, Miguel Crispiwho was represented by attorney Luis Hermosilla in the Acuerdo Case.
The link between Crispi and Hermosilla arose because the friendship between the first and Juan Cristóbal, the sociologist son of the lawyer and who is a former militant of the Democratic Revolution. In fact, those close to him claim that Crispi called his friend’s father “uncle”.
In fact, already during the mandate of President Gabriel Boric, the entourage of former President Sebastián Piñera He asked Luis Hermosilla to speak with Miguel Crispi to ensure that the Executive did not insist on taking legal action against the former Head of State. for the politics for the social outbreak, which he finally achieved.
Juan Pablo Hermosilla announced an appeal for protection
On the other hand, Luis Hermosilla’s lawyer questioned the statements made by President Gabriel Boric after learning of the precautionary measure against the lawyer and recalled that “when this case started I pointed out that there was a political variable. All of that disappeared until yesterday, when out of nowhere, The President of the Republic does something prohibited by the Constitution: he cannot interfere in judicial processes“.
“A man who believed himself to be all-powerful, Mr. Hermosilla, has just been sent to prison, to preventive detention.“Boric said on Tuesday during an activity at the Pedro Prado school.
Regarding the decision to send his client to preventive detention at the Santiago 1 prison, the lawyer said that “We are going to file an appeal for protection. This depends on the Ministry of Justice, and He has refused to treat Luis like an ordinary person.to transfer it to Captain Yáber.”
“What I think, after the president’s statement, It is a political decision“, Hermosilla said.
Finally, he indicated that “Luis must be the only person who today does not have any constitutional rights guaranteed in Chilebecause with this communication thing that has been set up Any decision by a judge in our favour will cause the hooligans to come out and shout This was a product of the influences“.