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Chile: Bachelet for complaint against the failures of the alert Tsunami

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Aerial view of the coastal town of Dichato Chile after earthquakes tons of earth. Thursday, March 4, 2010. AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko

L a complaint "for denial assistance ", which also former ministers and senior government officials Bachelet, was filed by lawyers representing families of victims, said in a statement one of them, Raul Meza Rodriguez .

According to counsel, a conviction could lead to "the 'lifetime ban on hold public " for officials complained.

The complaint was " accepted" by a Santiago court shall transmit to the prosecutor, told AFP a source in court.

The failures of the tsunami warning in the hours following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake of 27 February 2010 had triggered a strong debate.

The earthquake and tsunami had devastated entire villages or neighborhoods of south-central coast of Chile, 523 dead and 24 missing, and damage to the tune of 30 billion dollars.

At first the alarm was activated, then lowered, raised, and finally reactivated, but giant waves had swept the meantime the Chilean coast.

The Chilean Navy had recognized from the day after having committed a " misdiagnosis.

She admitted having sent the Presidency, through its Service Hydrographic and Oceanographic (SHOA), a "little clear information " which does not facilitate decision making on the maintenance of tsunami warning.

But according to Alberto Meza, " the former president took technical decisions that she was not entitled to take " at the time of the alert.

Ms. Bachelet, 59, whose presidential term had ended three weeks after earthquake has taken since September the head of " UN Women", the new UN agency for women's rights.

The former president has already been heard as a witness by the prosecution in a separate investigation into the failures of the tsunami warning.

Former Director of National Emergency (Onemi), Carmen Fernandez, is also covered by the complaint filed Wednesday, along with former Interior Ministers Edmundo Perez, Defence and Francisco Vidal former Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende.

" This litigation, which is considering sanctions that prohibit their lives to exercise public office, is the only remaining ," said lawyer Alberto Meza, adding: " punishment is fair, for damages suffered terrible and irreparable .

Of the total deaths of 27 February, 156 were due to the tsunami, according to official data.

Sebastian Piñera The current president who took office in March 2010, said in a report released Tuesday that the reconstruction will last until March 2014 his term.