Authorities validate criminal examination being carried out over claims of harassment.
Chilean authorities have actually verified that President Gabriel Boric is being examined over accusations of unwanted sexual advances.
In a declaration on Tuesday, Attorney General Cristian Crisosto stated claims submitted in September at the district attorney’s workplace of Magallanes in southern Chile, where Boric formerly worked as a legislator, are being examined.
The 38-year-old Boric has “unconditionally” rejected the accusations through his lawyer Jonatan Valenzuela, who stated in a declaration that Boric himself had actually been “the victim of organized harassment through e-mail”.
Valenzuela stated the problem originates from a female who sent out Boric unsolicited and raunchy e-mails from July 2013 to July 2014 while the grievance implicates Boric of harassment and dripping personal images.
He included that the president had “never ever had a psychological or friendly relationship” with the accuser, who is unnamed, and interactions records in between Boric and the lady have actually been sent to authorities to “clarify the status of the president as a victim”.
Crisosto stated “there is a criminal case connected to the realities noted” and an unique investigative group has actually been entrusted with checking out the matter.
Boric took workplace in March 2022 after a wave of mass demonstrations versus neoliberal financial policies and has actually had a hard time to move progressive top priorities forward
The harassment accusation comes at a time when the Chilean president is bogged down in a different scandal including accusations that previous Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve raped a subordinate.
Boric delights in governmental resistance and would need to be impeached to be officially examined for a criminal offense.
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