The Chilean Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against President Gabriel Boric for alleged sexual harassment of a woman. The president claims that the allegation is “unfounded.”
The complaint against Boric was confirmed by his lawyer, Jonatan Valenzuela, who issued a statement in which he detailed how the Chilean president is facing proceedings against him for the “dissemination of records of private images and an accusation of sexual harassment.”
The harassment was allegedly committed 10 years ago against a former classmate from law school. Boric’s lawyer contends that it was Boric himself, however, who was the victim of systematic harassment.
“From June 2013 to 2014, my client was the victim of emails that constituted systematic harassment against him,” stated Valenzuela. “Now there is the filing of a complaint before the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Magallanes on September 6th, 2024.”
The complaint was filed by the sender of the emails on September 6th at the Magallanes Regional Prosecutor’s Office, where Boric is from.
Valenzuela pointed out that although he was not going to provide details about the emails, in one of them the woman sent “explicit images, not requested and not consented to by the president.”
For his part, the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the area, Cristián Crisosto, confirmed that “there is a criminal case related to the facts indicated.”
Crisosto explained that a special team from the Prosecutor’s Office was appointed to investigate the allegations of sexual harassment.
Gabriel Boric has special jurisdiction; therefore, for the courts to investigate him he must first stand for a trial for the removal of his immunity.
During the campaign for his election in 2021, Boric was also accused of alleged sexual harassment, which he denied at the time. However, the complaint did not proceed through the courts.
(RedRadioVE) by Ana Perdigón with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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