Lawsuit against the State for attack: Government recalled that there are already economic compensations

Faced with the multi-million dollar lawsuit from the Victims of Terrorism Foundation, the Provincial Delegation of Arauco emphasized that comprehensive support for those affected by rural violence is already in place.

Meanwhile, district deputy Joanna Pérez recalled that during the Boric administration, these legal actions were warned about.

This is the first of several lawsuits that the Victims of Terrorism Foundation of the Southern Macrozone is preparing with its lawyers. It was filed in the Third Civil Court of Concepción, denouncing a businesswoman who lost her source of income, holding the State responsible and therefore demanding 2.8 billion pesos in compensation.

In this regard, the provincial delegate of Arauco, Pedro Marileo, recalled that there is currently a Victim Support Center in Cañete, dedicated to financially compensating losses resulting from rural violence; however, the authority added, any person has the right to pursue the legal actions they deem appropriate.

"In a state of law, each person, each organization can file a lawsuit. In this case, we have already taken note of the lawsuit from the Victims of Terrorism Foundation. We have been supporting each of the organizations that have suffered violence. We are conducting a survey to see if the necessary resources have indeed been provided to financially compensate for the losses they have incurred," Marileo stated.

A differing opinion on these aids was given by deputy Flor Weisse, who estimated that they do not consider the real level of the problem.

"Various measures have been implemented, such as the rural violence program, which in my opinion is disconnected from reality because it does not recognize the terrorism that exists in the area. The facts show that they have failed to address the magnitude or the dynamics of what is happening and what the inhabitants of the southern macrozone are experiencing," the parliamentarian stated.

To this, she added that "in that context, the death of three police officers marked a before and after, because it revealed a level of violence that deeply impacted the country and made clear the seriousness of this crisis."

Meanwhile, deputy Joanna Pérez stated that this type of lawsuit did not surprise her. The parliamentarian recalled that she had warned the previous government about the possibility that victims would assert the State's lack of service, and what was achieved was the reinforcement of the State of Exception.

"We warned at the time through the INDH, where many of its own authorities did not want to listen, that we had forced displacements and certainly also matters that could one day sue the State for lack of service in security matters. However, the government struggled to understand and kept reinforcing these states of exception," she affirmed.

Indeed, among the arguments supporting the first lawsuit filed are the forced displacements of people resulting from the attacks, which would give the legal action the status of a human rights violation.

Source:BiobioChile