Monsalve case video: The complainant appears clearly confused and the former Under Secretary walks her back to the taxi with a firm step

CIPER has circulated a video showing the second arrest of the taxi in which Manuel Monsalve and the complainant rode on the night of September 22. Although the former undersecretary has said that he lost his memory before leaving the Peruvian restaurant and only remembered it the next morning, he does not appear disoriented or unstable in these images. On the other hand, his former advisor seems completely irregular, walking towards the center of the road without considering the risk posed by vehicular traffic. Monsalve, with a sure step, runs to catch up with her, takes her hand and leads her back to the vehicle. A few moments later, the taxi departs for its third and final stop: the Panamericano Hotel.

CIPER had access to a video showing the second arrest of then Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve and his advisor in the taxi in which they both rode on the night of 22 to 23 September. The vehicle had stopped a few minutes earlier, as he was vomiting, and then continued towards the complainant’s house. This new milestone is what was recorded in the images that CIPER is now transmitting. In them it can be seen that the complainant gets out of the car and, under the influence of alcohol consumption, starts walking in an unsteady manner, and instead of staying on the footpath, she walks towards the center of the road, as if confused. Without taking into account vehicle traffic.

At the same time, the two vehicles started moving in the direction of the complainant as the traffic light at the previous corner had changed to green. Then, Monsalve walks towards her, but he does so with much more confident steps, almost jogging, with no obvious signs of instability, he takes her hand and leads her back to the car. The officer, always indicating her state of incontinence, makes no resistance to returning to the vehicle. A few moments later, the car departs for its third and final stop: the Panamericano Hotel, scene of the events described in the complaint eventually filed by the former counselor for rape and sexual abuse.

In the video, which is a distant shot and the complainant’s face cannot be seen clearly, CIPER covered his face to protect his identity.

These images of the former Undersecretary, in which there are no indications that he has lost consciousness, could be relevant to the process being carried out in the 7th Guarantee Court, where this Tuesday the 19th the hearing will be formal.

That’s because Monsalve has said he doesn’t remember what happened after dinner at the Peruvian restaurant Aji Seco Místico. This was communicated to both Minister Carolina Toha and President Gabriel Boric, who had already announced this to the Prosecutor’s Office.

President Boryk’s testimony, which was broadcast clinicindicates that Monsalve had told him that he had lost his memory before leaving the restaurant. According to Boryk’s statement, his then-undersecretary told him that “he didn’t remember anything after the second Pisco Sour, until he woke up with her in his hotel bed at 6:30.”

Meanwhile, Minister Toha told the prosecution that Monsalve told him that he had met one of his subordinates at a restaurant around 6:00 pm on Sunday, September 22 and “they had some pisco sour and then”. They didn’t do it and won’t remember anything else until the next morning.”

Contrary to the version that Monsalve gave to the President and Minister Toha, the video reviewed by CIPER shows a conscious reaction on his part, without signs of instability, impairment or disorientation.

In relation to the state the complainant was in, the images appear to be consistent with the description she gave of her lack of consciousness that night:

“I don’t remember how I left that place (Peruvian restaurant). I don’t remember how I reached your hotel, because I woke up in your hotel itself. I don’t remember anything at all. Nothing like this had ever happened to me in my life. My first memory in the morning is that it was still dark and I lost track of time. I was feeling dizzy and had severe headache. He explained to the prosecution, “I was still half unconscious and I remembered at that moment that there was a meeting, I had to get up early, and I heard that they said no, that it was suspended.”

The video can also be used by the defense, which is interested in demonstrating to the court that no coercion or force was used by Monsalve. This followed press reports where it was suggested that there may have been conflicts in some of the itineraries between the restaurant and the Panamericano Hotel. In any case, According to a report by thirdThe police report analyzes 172 images collected by the Public Ministry, explaining that, outside a gastronomic establishment, Monsalve may have kissed her and “she moves away and resists him.”

The statement of the taxi driver who testified in the case, about what happened in the second arrest of his vehicle, which is now being broadcast by CIPER, matches what can be seen in the images:

“I note that I never saw a struggle between them, neither on the part of the girl nor on the part of the man, however, suddenly he grabbed her arm, but as if holding the girl steady and helping her Go, because it was obvious that she was very drunk, after a few minutes and while I was still cleaning the car (because she had vomited) they both came to me again and the girl again told me that she was in that car. I don’t want to go with the boy, so I Told her to get into the car and I helped her into the passenger seat and the man sat back in the back seat. “They joined each other so willingly that I’ve never seen anyone like that,” she says. Heard that the boy might have forced her to live with him.

In another video shown on the first day of the formal hearing, As reported to CIPER The plaintiff attorney in the case, Luis Eduardo Cantelano, sees Monsalve stable in his behavior inside the Hotel Panamericano, with no signs of disorientation or loss of consciousness. In that record, the former Under Secretary is seen when he, after dropping off his subordinate on the seventh floor, goes down to find his room key at the reception of the hotel where he was staying. In that video, after he goes back to his room, he is also seen running down the hotel corridor:

“One of the interior rooms of the hotel is the one facing the hallway leading to the elevator. Once he (Monsalve) receives the magnetic key from the officials at the reception in the hotel lobby, (who give him this magnetic card), he walks a few steps and enters the hallway and starts running . That is to say, he runs in a kind of gait to get there as quickly as possible, perhaps to climb the stairs. Because the elevator can be seen in the video frame and he is running away,” lawyer Cantelano told CIPER.