A 22-year-old Dominican young man faces trial for the same crime who is behind bars in Punta Arenas: frustrated homicide.
According to the background, the foreign citizen stabbed another inmate of the Magellan prison.
This case starring Carlos Paulino Ortizwho remains in preventive detention in Puerto Montt (to where he was transferred).
As detailed The Austral Press, the attack occurred on October 21, 2022, when the victim was playing ping pong with other inmates. It was in this context that the accused He stabbed him in the back with a knife and then wounded him in the left arm, face and chest..
Despite the severity of the attack, the victim’s life was saved in the hospital.
Attack due to sexual orientation
This Monday, the Dominican broke his silence and gave his version in the trial against him.
In his story, he stated that he was drinking mate in the cell and that he did not want to give it to his module mate. “because a trans person was going to visit him and that is prohibited in prison”.
“There he became foul-mouthed, insulting and threatening me, pointing out that when the gendarme was not there he was going to hit me.”he added.
Once the prosecutor asked him to clarify his statements, the accused explained that “It is frowned upon in prison because they may think that I shared and I was left in trouble.” (…) “When they sent him to my room I threw all his things away, because he was gay and I looked bad.”.
During the day this Tuesday, the verdict of the case is expected to be known.
