(15 Nov 2024)
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Santiago, Chile – 15 November 2024
1. Police car arriving at court, carrying former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve
2. Journalists approaching the car where Monsalve is being held
3. Monsalve entering the courtroom in handcuffs with police officers
4. Monsalve sitting next to his lawyer
5. Monsalve sitting and handcuffed
6. Prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz reading the case basis UPSOUND (Spanish):
"At approximately 6:00 P.M. the accused, Manuel Zacarias Monsalve Benavides, met with the victim, initials already mentioned (C.B.L.P) with whom he went to the restaurant."
7. Monsalve hearing, with the prosecution and defense in front of the judge
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Xavier Armendáriz, Prosecutor:
"She woke up in bed in that room, naked on the lower half of her body, dressed only in a sleeveless vest and with severe pain in her vagina and head, disoriented in time and space, unable to remember what had happened in the previous hours, noticing vomit and blood stains both on herself and on the bed sheets."
9. Courtroom
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Xavier Armendáriz, Prosecutor:
"Legal Classification participation and degree of development, crime of sexual abuse of a person over 14 years of age."
11. Journalists in front of courtroom
12. Police officer standing behind Monsalve
13. Prosecution lawyer with her team of lawyers
14. Monsalve talking to her lawyer
15. Prosecution lawyer talking
16. Monsalve with a pencil in his hand
STORYLINE:
A former senior official in Chile’s government was formally accused in a court in Santiago of rape, a case that dents the domestic support for leftist President Gabriel Boric.
Manuel Monsalve, 59, who until last month served as Chile’s deputy interior minister and played a key role in strategizing the country’s fight against a rise in organized crime, faces accusations of raping a 32-year-old female staffer in a hotel room after meeting her for dinner in September.
He stood in court Friday, where prosecutors read the accusations.
Monsalve has denied committing any crime.
He stepped down on Oct. 17 when prosecutors announced they had launched an investigation into the female official’s complaint, touching off public outrage and putting further pressure on Boric, a 38-year-old millennial ex-student protest leader who took office in 2022 promising to create a “feminist government.”
Police on Thursday arrested Monsalve at his house in the seaside resort of Viña del Mar and transferred him by car to custody in Chile’s capital of Santiago, 128 km (80 miles) away. He was led in handcuffs by detectives into the station to give a statement.
President Boric, who testified as a witness in the case last week, responded to the arrest of his former top official with a brief post on social media platform X that did not name Monsalve.
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