Chilean President Boric rejects allegations of sexual harassment

Authorities corroborate transgression probe being conducted implicit allegations of harassment.

Chilean authorities person confirmed that President Gabriel Boric is being investigated implicit allegations of intersexual harassment.

In a connection connected Tuesday, Attorney General Cristian Crisosto said allegations filed successful September astatine the prosecutor’s bureau of Magallanes successful confederate Chile, wherever Boric antecedently served arsenic a lawmaker, are being investigated.

The 38-year-old Boric has “categorically” denied the allegations done his lawyer Jonatan Valenzuela, who said successful a connection that Boric himself had been “the unfortunate of systematic harassment via email”.

Valenzuela said the ailment comes from a pistillate who sent Boric unsolicited and sexually explicit emails from July 2013 to July 2014 portion the ailment accuses Boric of harassment and leaking backstage images.

He added that the president had “never had an affectional oregon affable relationship” with the accuser, who is unnamed, and communications records betwixt Boric and the pistillate person been submitted to authorities to “clarify the presumption of the president arsenic a victim”.

Crisosto said “there is simply a transgression lawsuit related to the facts listed” and a peculiar investigative squad has been tasked with looking into the matter.

Boric took bureau successful March 2022 aft a question of wide protests against neoliberal economical policies and has struggled to determination progressive priorities forward

The harassment allegation comes astatine a clip erstwhile the Chilean president is mired successful a abstracted ungraded involving allegations that erstwhile Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve raped a subordinate.

Boric enjoys statesmanlike immunity and would person to beryllium impeached to beryllium formally investigated for a crime.

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