Chile: Mayor commits suicide after being arrested for drunk driving

The mayor of a small town in the south of Pepper He committed suicide after resigning from his position on social media after crashing his vehicle while drunk, the Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this Monday.

“I made a huge mistake. I broke the law and as a community authority I must pay“, he wrote Jorge Roathe 68-year-old mayor of the city of Floridaon your Facebook profile.

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Roa published the message on Sunday after being detained for a few hours as a result of the road accident in which he was involved under the influence of alcohol, a source from the Public Ministry told AFP.

The president crashed his vehicle into a house. The police released him because there were no casualties or serious damage.

This Monday, Roa was found dead in his home in Florida, a city of just over 10 thousand inhabitants in the region of BioBíolocated approximately 500 km south of Santiagoconfirmed the Public Ministry.

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The mayor, a teacher by profession, had been in office for 11 years and was an activist for Christian democracy. In his public letter he added: “I have no moral authority to continue in my position.”.

According to his public account, before crashing the car he was sharing “with several friends”.

After the accident, he did not flee the scene and submitted to all police inspections.

Source: Elcomercio

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