Chile's 38-year-old president is sued for 'homicide mail more than 10 years ago'

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Chile's youngest president, 38, has been accused of sending sexual harassment emails more than a decade ago.

The president countered that it was groundless, but he is in a difficult situation because other cabinet members have also resigned due to sex crimes.

I'm reporter Kim Do-won.

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Gabriel Boric, who took office two years ago, is 38 years old this year, the youngest Chilean president.

Half of his term has passed, and he was recently sued for committing sexual harassment more than a decade ago.

In 2013, when he was running for Congress, he sent an inappropriate e-mail to a woman when he was 27 years old.

[Cristian Cristo / Magyanes, Chile District Attorney: Prosecutors have been investigating since September over allegations of improper sending of covert photos]

More than a decade ago, President Boric was already a celebrity as a student movement leader.

President Boric called the complaint unfounded and refuted that the woman who filed the complaint stalked him.

He also added that he had no relationship with the complainant and had no contact with him since 2014.

[Honathan Valenzuela / Chilean Presidential Counsel] The accuser sent 25 emails to the president. I won't go into detail, but one of them contains obscene pictures that the president doesn't want or agree with.

In Chile, a deputy interior minister recently resigned after being arrested for sexually assaulting a subordinate.

The ruling left-wing coalition appears to have a series of bad news ahead of next year's presidential election.

Chilean prosecutors set up a dedicated team to investigate, but even if the charges are admitted, they will not be prosecuted until March of next year, when Boric's term ends.

I'm Kim Do Won of YTN.

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