MADRID 27 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Chilean appeals court has maintained this Wednesday the preventive detention for the former Undersecretary of the Interior of Chile Manuel Monsalve, accused by the Prosecutor’s Office for a case of sexual abuse and rape against a Ministry worker.
Monsalve’s defense had appealed the decision and had requested house arrest for his client, questioning the arguments of the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago that he represented a “danger to society”, as reported by the T13 network.
This occurs hours after one of Monsalve’s lawyers, María Inés Horvitz, has resigned from defending the former undersecretary of the Interior due to “disparity in strategic-legal criteria” with the rest of the lawyers.
“I want to make it clear that my decision has no relation to my deep conviction that the facts attributed to Mr. Monsalve lack evidentiary support in the background of the investigation known so far,” he said in a statement collected by the aforementioned network. .
Monsalve resigned on October 17 after that day the newspaper ‘La Segunda’ revealed a complaint against him for alleged sexual assault, filed three days earlier by an advisor to the Ministry of the Interior.
He is also being investigated for a possible crime of obstruction of justice for ordering the Police – when the case had not yet broken out – to access the recordings of the security cameras of the hotel where the sexual assault was allegedly perpetrated.