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Absolve the Former Police Officer Who Shot Gustavo Gatica, an Iconic Victim of Chile’s Social Outburst

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Chile's justice acquitted former police officer Claudio Crespo, accused of shooting Gustavo Gatica during the 2019 social outburst.

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Court rules that shooting of Gustavo Gatica constituted “self-defense” – Former protester, who lost his sight, says he will appeal

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Gatica became a symbol of police repression in the Chilean social outburst that demanded social justice since October 2019.

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Chile's justice acquitted former police officer Claudio Crespo, accused of shooting Gustavo Gatica during the 2019 social outburst.

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The 4th oral court in Santiago has acquitted the former colonel of Carabineros Claudio Crespo, the only and principal accused of causing the injuries that blinded Gustavo Gatica in November 2019, in one of the emblematic cases of human rights violations denounced after the social outbreak of October 18, 2019. The verdict, which has been handed over this Tuesday at the Santiago de Chile Justice Center, has involved a setback for the prosecution, …

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The president of the Frente Amplio, Constanza Martínez, reacted harshly to the acquittal of ex-Carabiniero Claudio Crespo in the case of Gustavo Gatica, a young man who lost his sight after being shot in his eyes during a demonstration in November 2019. After learning about the resolution, Constanza Martínez used his X account to harshly question the judicial resolution. “Today the justice failed Gustavo Gatica. This decision enshrines impunity …

·Chile
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A court in Santiago acquitted a carabinieri accused of the injuries that blinded a protester during the 2019 social outburst. The post Absolved the Carabineros agent that Chile accused of blinding a protester in 2019 appeared first on El Diario.

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