Mayor Macarena Ripamonti (RD) is once again in the spotlight and this time regarding the fact that Relatives of people who lost their lives in the fire, inside the Botanical Garden of Viña del Mar, will file a criminal complaint against the community leader. The judicial action will be carried out on Monday, February 26 by the lawyer Mario Zumelzu, as confirmed The counter.
The mayor warned this Saturday that The municipality had also filed a complaint against those responsible for the fire., but regarding the complaint that was announced against her she said: “The actions of this lawyer are completely impudent, he has no humanity, he has none, 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 also for the rest of the people, by shamelessly approaching to try to promise, without legal basis, responsibility to create a political controversy. What he is doing is really impudent and dehumanizing.”
Sources within the municipality revealed to The counter that, after this conference, the complaining family would have contacted the mayor’s team to warn them that Zumelzu approached them to offer them free advice with only one condition: file a complaint against the mayor and not against the director of the Botanical Garden, Alejandro Peirano, as they initially thought.
This, after the mayor warned that “I only know one lawyer who is carrying out this. I don’t know who pays his salary, I don’t know what his motivations are, I only know that he is alleging that and that he has a record of the causes he defends, such as people who have committed bribery and fraud against the treasury, like Jaime Orpis ”.
Ripamonti attacked: “We know that things are dirty in politics, but these catastrophes are not for politics.“They are not to take advantage of people, they are not to lack humanity, and he is a person who is completely dehumanized, he does not have an iota of shame.”
Regarding her management and what the complaint points out, regarding her possible responsibilities in the case, the community leader stated: “We have fully fulfilled our obligations as a municipality.. We have a Municipal Emergency Plan, we present in a timely manner all the required plans: Risk and Disaster Reduction Plan, Fire Threat Plan, Earthquake Threat Plan and Flood Threat Plans.”
Regarding Zumelzu, he said that “I don’t know if he even knows it or negligently ignores it, but, in any case, it is an exploitation of politics and it is a bad professional practice at the expense of the pain of people who are experiencing a situation.” dramatic.”
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