US EditionUdd Citizen Panel Survey: 55% Agrees with Claudio Crespo’s Acquittal
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The acquittal of former Colonel Claudio Crespo in the Gatica case not only marked the end of one of the most emblematic causas of the social outbreak, but also the fate of a thesis that the Prosecutor's Office raised when the protests and demonstrations of 2019 still shook the country and the courts still did not determine that the police forces were able to defend themselves against the violence deployed in Baquedano Square.This was recorded in…
On Tuesday, January 13, it was a hard and contradictory day. After sitting for three hours listening to the ruling of the judges, Claudio Crespo, the same man who shot me in the face just over six years ago, whose ammunition blinded my two eyes forever, came out of court as a free man.
By consecrating a privileged presumption of self-defence and tightening the burden of proof against the victims, the norm transforms individual pain into a collective defeat, making justice almost impossible for torture, eye trauma and disproportionate lethality. Claudia Aranda. “Agencia Pressenza”. Montreal. 18/1/2026. The recent acquittal of ex-carabinero Claudio Crespo, responsible for the shooting that blinded Gustavo Gatica on November 8, 2…
A new edition of the Citizen Panel survey of the University of Development (UDD) addressed the public perception of the Gustavo Gatica case. At the consultation on whether they had heard or read about the case and the recent judicial verdict that acquitted ex-Carabiniero Claudio Crespo, 75% of respondents responded that they did have knowledge of the facts.
After the decision of Judge Catalina Cabello to acquit the former Colonel of Carabineros, Claudio Crespo, an intense debate was opened on the legal reasons that led the Fourth Oral Court of Santiago to adopt this verdict. Outside the Justice Center a number of protesters met, some supporting Congressman Gustavo Gatica and others Claudio Crespo. It was the expression of what would come a few hours after the judge read the verdict. Different organ…
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