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  • 8/14/2024

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00:00In the moment that I knew I could stop living, I was afraid.
00:08I was afraid of dying one night.
00:12I wanted to continue living for the girls.
00:16But there are also days when I don't want to continue living, not even for them.
00:22But maybe it's not worth thinking about that.
01:01These images correspond to a summer afternoon inside the Santiago Penitentiary.
01:09A prison designed for no more than 1,200 people, houses 3,800 inmates.
01:16Under these conditions, it is difficult to differentiate the criminal population according to their criminal category.
01:24That's why the experiences of those who first enter this place are as traumatic as unforgettable.
01:33And by the way, they leave traces that not even time can erase.
01:42Gabriel Montesinos spent a month in this place.
01:46His only way to protect his physical integrity, at least,
01:50was to lock himself in a cell of unconfirmed people until his fatal sentence.
01:56His experiences, as he was accused of multiple rapes, are indescribable.
02:03And he marked his peaceful life so much that today, after five years,
02:07I remember him, Floran, with the strength of a nightmare.
02:09When I was declared a rapist, the judge declared me a rapist, and then the court declared me a rapist,
02:17I thought that everything would be over.
02:20Even thinking about a sentence of life imprisonment or death penalty,
02:26I started to think about how my execution would be.
02:30Thinking and crying that when the officer gave the order to shoot me,
02:37that, by the miracle of God, nothing would come out of any rifle.
02:45I was thinking that I was justifying an innocent person.
02:49Were you ever afraid that your cellmates would rape you?
02:53That it was a bit like the punishment that all rapists receive?
02:56That's the fear I felt when the judge wanted me to go to the patio.
03:02Nothing happened inside the police station, because I was alone in my cell.
03:08That's why I asked the judge to keep me in the police station, for security reasons.
03:14Plus the security that the police station gave me, who treated me wonderfully.
03:19Mr. Gabriel, did you have the chance to meet the real rapist face to face,
03:26without him knowing your identity and talking to you?
03:29Yes, it happened.
03:30And how was that conversation? How was that meeting?
03:34The captain who was in charge of the patrol, whatever happened,
03:41he caught me raping, he hit me on the back, because they always did it.
03:45Whenever they saw me raping, they did it.
03:47Any captain or lieutenant who passed by, they hit me on the back.
03:50Montesinos, how are you?
03:52Here I am, waiting for you. What's going on?
03:54Calm down, Montesinos, come out and free me.
03:56They cheered me up, they helped me.
03:57Because they were aware that I was not.
04:00And that day the captain came and told me,
04:03Montesinos, here is the key, open that cell,
04:06and the unfortunate one who is there, get him out of there.
04:09Because of him, I was in prison for a month.
04:12I took the keys and gave them to my captain.
04:15I'm no one to punish other people.
04:17If he commits what I'm paying, let justice punish him.
04:22And you didn't want to talk to him?
04:24Yes, well, the captain told me that he wanted to see what seemed good between the two of us.
04:30And he made me enter my cell.
04:34They took him out and I left.
04:37And I asked him what had happened, what happened to you, why did you fall?
04:42And he told me, because of something he had done to my wife.
04:47He didn't specify what was going on,
04:50but in any case he asked me why I was there.
04:51I told him no, that it was not much for me,
04:54that maybe I would be released in a day or two.
04:58Mr. Gabriel, what did it mean for you to arrive in Portezuela, your hometown,
05:01after having been declared definitively innocent of these charges?
05:06It was something that I would sincerely have to cry again
05:12to thank all those people, all the people who were with me.
05:17The moment of arriving, entering Portezuela,
05:21and seeing all the doors saying,
05:23Gabriel, we love you, Gabriel, we want to be with you,
05:26don't go, stay with us,
05:28those are moments that can never be forgotten.
05:35Cristina Salas was one of the victims
05:38who did not hesitate to accuse her in the trial.
05:41Undoubtedly, that mistake that the prison cost an innocent person
05:43has a clear justification.
05:46A raped woman is the object of the most horrendous aggression that can be committed.