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On March 19 of this year, residents of Las Condes and La Reina were surprised to open the water tap of their home. There was a bad odor from the basic service and at least 30 people were required to go to the health clinics in the eastern sector with severe stomach pain and infectious diseases resulting from fluid consumption.
Eight months after this incident, the High Complexity Prosecutor's Office East already has an answer and those responsible for these events. Attorney Constanza Encina – together with members of the IDP's environmental brigade – determined that workers from the health services specialist Unisan had poured fecal waste from the chemistry baths into three reservoirs. 39, drinking water (owned by Aguas Andinas). administer on the motor vehicle parking of Providencia.
The Fourth Guarantee Court of Santiago today seized the request of the prosecutor Encina to formalize the three workers who allegedly committed a crime against public health to execute this maneuver that would eventually contaminate drinking water in the municipalities of La Reina and Las Condes. Most likely, this hearing is scheduled for the first days of January and should be brought forward to deal with these charges. The unified workers, Gabriel Acosta, Pablo Bernal and Carlos de La Rosa.
The investigation established that the accused had to move that day. from a safe, in the municipality of La Reina, next to the Providencia parking lot, the garbage that there was chemical toilets working in the place. According to the protocol, the destination of these substances was the wastewater treatment plant of La Farfana in Maipú. However, after loading the garbage into a truck shortly after, in the vicinity of the intercommunal park, the researchers decided to throw them into three wells of drinking water feeding the inhabitants of Las Condes and La Reina.
The IDP seized images in which workers are seen leaving their established road and throwing fecal waste into the wells. The crime that will be charged is that of Article 315 of the Penal Code.
The Prosecutor's office of great complexity, headed by the prosecutor Felipe Sepúlveda, already has the testimony of a victim who, after the episode of contamination, had to have been hospitalized for three days for having eaten water with feces.
Faced with this information, the mayor of Las Condes, Joaquín Lavín, said that "it is terrible to know the truth about what happened." But that's exactly what we We suspect from the first moment, first because the neighbors have spoken about the smell and the color of the water.
And later because we started to to receive complaints about the mismanagement of chemical toilets in this area and I am pleased that the complaint presented has colored effects ". At the same time, he announced that "of course, now that we know it, the corresponding lawsuits will be redoubled"
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