Many journalists were struck yesterday by the absence at the scene of the triple homicide of the police in Cañete de Juan Yanez Martinich, the only prosecutor in the Bío Bío Region specialized in rural violencewhich has been behind a series of emblematic cases, including all the latest investigations carried out around Resistencia Mapuche Lafkenche (RML), the radical group that dominates the sector where the attack occurred.
In fact, the person who carried out the first steps after the attack was the chief prosecutor of Cañete, Danilo Ramos, and this morning, visibly uncomfortable, the undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, admitted that Yáñez (who has been dedicated to the matter for nearly 10 years ) is not part of the team of four prosecutors investigating the incident, the most serious crime of rural violence committed in recent years in the area.
After leaving a meeting with the regional prosecutor of Bío Bío, Marcela Cartagena, in Concepción, Monsalve was asked by the press whether Yáñez was among the team of four prosecutors.
Faced with that, the undersecretary indicated that “I think that is important… those matters, that the prosecutor clarify it, I operate based on the information that I handle, not“.
Given this, he was asked if it was not then a crime of rural violence, to which the authority responded that “From the information that I have, prosecutor Yáñez is not part of the team of prosecutors.”
It should be noted that At the beginning of this year, prosecutor Yáñez filed an internal complaint (first at the regional level and then at the national prosecutor’s office level) against his hierarchical superior, Marcela Cartagena..
Unlike the Region of La Araucanía, where there is a team of eight prosecutors who rotate in cases of rural violence, in Bío Bío the only one dedicated to them exclusively is Yáñez, which during the government of Sebastián Piñera gave gave rise to a series of criticisms, due to the scarcity of the resources of that regional prosecutor’s office regarding this issue. This criticism was reiterated by the deputies who last year asked the Supreme Court to remove Cartagena, whom they accused of having dismantled the previously existing team, made up of four prosecutors, to leave only one of them.
This request, as reported The counterwas unanimously rejected by the country’s highest court, despite which three ministers issued a severe rebuke against it in the ruling, after which the national prosecutor, Angel Valenciaremoved from Cartagena the direction of the investigation regarding the death of the child Tomas Bravoan event – also – that occurred in the Province of Arauco.
