“Continue celebrating the Festival while Viña mourns its dead”

“Let Ripamonti continue celebrating the Festival while Viña mourns its dead,” said Mario Zumelzu in response to the mayor accusing the lawyer of “immodest and inhumane” after filing a complaint for quasi-crime of homicide against him. The judicial action points to the responsibility of Macarena Ripamonti in the fires, given that the municipality did not have updated emergency or evacuation plans.

Yesterday, the mayor accused the lawyer of taking political advantage of the tragedy: “He has no humanity, what he is doing is completely shameful and it is a harm not only to those families, because he is taking advantage of them, but to the rest of the families.” people by shamelessly approaching to try to promise, without legal basis, responsibility to create a political controversy.”

The lawyer, former defender of Jaime Orpis in the Corpesca case, in conversation with El Mercurio de Valparaíso, defended himself and said: “Imputing political intention to complaints is what is always done when there are no arguments to defend oneself.”

According to the information you published The counterfrom the municipality they accuse that Zumelzu offered free advice to the affected family as long as they changed their original plan to sue the director of the Botanical Garden, Alejandro Peirano.

However, Zumelzu assures that her lawsuit points out that “here there is serious negligence on the part of Ripamonti to do her job, she did not know how to be mayor. She worries a lot about appearing in the press and what she has to do, she doesn’t do.”

Another of the plaintiff lawyers, Luis Castellano, also addressed the criticism of the community leader. The lawyer assured that the mayor “has accustomed us Viñamarinos to political statements, while there is no argument linked to technical or legal issues.”

Zumelzu pointed out that Ripamonti’s allegations respond to a lack of legal solvency: “Political accusations are made only when there are no substantive arguments.”