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Just a few minutes ago an activity had ended at the Palacio de La Moneda to commemorate the two years since the Covid-19 virus arrived in the country, when the President Sebastian Pinera He began to take photos with the guests after finishing his balance speech. There, while taking some selfies in the Patio de Los Cañones, after 2:00 p.m., a woman approached the President to rebuke him. At that moment the young woman, who had a bottle of water in her hand that had been delivered by the organizers of the event, threw the content at the Head of State on her head. “The worst!” she yelled at him, according to witnesses to the tense episode.
Palace security was immediately activated and the protagonist of the event was quickly removed from the scene, taken inside the Las Camelias patio and detained by La Moneda guards. The Prosecutor’s Office was informed of what had happened and was transferred to the First Police Station in Santiago awaiting instructions. Because it was a flagrant crime, it was determined that a police report be filed. After a few minutes and after the affected person himself, the President of the Republic, assured that he would not take legal action against her, the woman was released and was summoned to the Public Ministry after a criminal investigation was opened for alleged attack against the authority. for this crime sentences of up to 3 years in prison are risked, but judicial sources explain that with the President’s announcement and the young woman’s irreproachable conduct, it is most likely that the case will end with an alternative solution to a trial.
The detainee was identified Audrey Astrid Burgos. She is 22 years old and is a journalism student at the Alberto Hurtado University. What was she doing there? She was present at the event because her grandfather David López had been invited and she came as her companion. Despite the fact that the event did not escalate and Piñera took off his jacket and continued with the activity, the young woman’s attack continued as a theme during the day and even more so when it was the young woman’s grandfather who interceded in favor of his granddaughter. All this was described in a tweet from the Head of State.
We open the doors of everyone’s house to commemorate and thank Chileans for 2 years of fighting the Pandemic. It ended with an action that damages our democracy and healthy coexistence. His grandfather came to apologize to me, I accepted them and we received him with the respect that everyone deserves. pic.twitter.com/OZmXOOifnn
– Sebastian Piñera (@sebastianpinera) March 3, 2022
“It was unfortunate, I accept your apologies, you have no responsibility,” Piñera commented at the meeting. Given the gesture, the President announced that he was not going to file a lawsuit, nor would he take any legal action against the young woman. The government spokesperson minister, Jaime Bellolio, Along with regretting what happened, he confirmed La Moneda’s position. “The President has decided not to file any legal action,” he assured.
After the arrest, the case reached the flagrante delicto team of the North Central Prosecutor’s Office. However, due to the fact that the complainant desisted from presenting actions against her, the Public Ministry made the decision to leave her on notice, that is, only to file the police report and release her.
The memory of Maria Music
The fact was quickly viralized on social networks, a platform through which several representatives of Chile Vamos condemned the attack on the President. “I see many justifying, minimizing, putting context and relativizing the aggression against the President of the Republic. It is essential to have a single voice on that: It is Unacceptable. The presidency takes care of itself, whoever the first President is”, published the president of the UDI, Javier Macaya.
What happened revived the case starring Maria Musica Sepulveda a high school student from Liceo Darío Salas who on July 15, 2008, when she was only 14 years old, interrupted a press point of the then Minister of Education, Mónica Jiménez, throwing water in her face with a jug.
The last thing it was known about her It was in 2019. That year the young woman -who at that time looked dreadlocks– reappeared, this time, on social networks, his Weed Mama venture, in Persa Biobío. In her store, she offers products, recipes and advice on “weed cooking (marijuana, in English)”, as well as cosmetic and natural health products.