The president of Chile, Gabriel Boricfaces a complaint for the alleged sexual harassment of a woman 10 years ago, which the president rejects “categorically”as revealed by his defense. The fact refers to a series of email exchanges between the complainant and Boric, in which there were sending intimate images without consent.
“The president (…) categorically rejects and denies the complaint” of an event that occurred in 2013, when he had just graduated from his law studies, said the lawyer. Jonatan Valenzuela in a statement.
The complaint was filed in the Magallanes Prosecutor’s Officewhich confirmed the existence of the case against the president.
What is the complaint against Gabriel Boric like?
According to the defense of the Chilean president, the complainant is a woman who at the time sent Boric 25 emails, one of them with explicit imagesan “unsolicited or unconsensual” shipment. The lawyer He noted that the woman “filed a complaint without any basis” and that Boric “never had an emotional or friendly relationship with her and they have had no communication since July 2014.”
Boric will complete his four-year term in 2026 without the right to re-election. It has a special jurisdiction and, to be investigated, Justice must first approve an impeachment trial. In the campaign for his election in 2021, Boric was accused of another alleged sexual harassment that he also denied at the time. The complaint was never criminally investigated.
The case against him occurs on a par with other accusations of sexual abuse and rape, in this case against a former strong man of the Executive in matters of Security, Manuel Monsalvein preventive detention.
The string of emails from Boric and the complainant: what the president’s defense says
Boric’s lawyer insisted that his client is the victim of the exchanges with the complainant, after a series of emails “constituting systematic harassment against him.” In addition, he maintained that it is clear that there was “Responses that show the disorientation of those who receive an email without any type of justification”in reference to Boric’s answers with question marks and questions.
The 25 emails consist of conversations without much fluidity, where the majority of messages are from the complainant to the current president, even without responses from Boric. Some of the emails are the following:
December 10, 2013
Complainant: Call me whenever you want and I’ll go with you wherever you want. I can’t stand living with my parents anymore. They are going to live in Viña and on a car trip, I can’t stand it, I’m dying. Can you call me please?
Boric: ???
February 25, 2014
(…) It was you that I had always loved, and I didn’t know it, I want to see you, please, rescue me? the way you want but take me with you? Those are the main reasons for my depression. I ask you with my heart, but I couldn’t bear to write this to you by email. Love U 4 ever, for me you are my only friend. (Email sent twice).
February 26
Boric: ???
February 27, 2014
Complainant: (…) My will has never been against you, there are other beings who plan to take our lives again. There they are with their will. Skip emails I sent you before, please. All my sacrifices have always been for you and I hope to continue doing so, if you let me, you are the only God that exists.
February 27, 2014 (Automated message)
Boric: (automatic response from your email) Dear, at this moment I am in Tierra del Fuego without internet or cell phone, I will respond to you next week when I return to Punta Arenas.
February 28, 2014
Boric: (name of complainant) I don’t understand anything.
(The complainant changes the email again
Source: Ambito
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