Case File 2.182-98: "Colombo Case" Episode, aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo

36.-) Statement by DINA agent Manuel Francisco Belmar Brito, on page 6396, maintaining that in 1973, while performing his military service, he was sent to a course at Rocas de Santo Domingo, where they were received by Army Commander César Manríquez Bravo, who explained the reason for their presence at that facility.

The short course covered how to find arms caches, conduct surveillance, political documentation, and physical training. He then returned to Santiago and, in approximately March 1974, was ordered to report to Captain Castillo at the Londres 38 facility, who indicated to the permanent staff and conscript soldiers that they were to join guard groups.

The Londres 38 barracks was a two-story building; on the first floor, there was a large hall where the detainees were held, and on the second floor, there were offices where officers from different institutions worked, along with their assistants, who were non-commissioned officers.

The head of the Londres 38 facility was Marcelo Moren Brito, and the duties he performed at the barracks were those of a gate guard. At the Londres 38 facility, there were approximately 7 to 30 detainees, both men and women, who were blindfolded and separated by sex, sitting on school chairs in the first-floor hall.

Operational groups would arrive at the hall where the detainees were held and proceed to take them to the second floor or to the street, after notifying the non-commissioned officer on guard, and subsequently return them to their place of detention.

On the second floor of the Londres 38 facility, there was also an office located at the back, which was used to interrogate the detainees. The permanent staff would take the detainees from the large hall on the first floor, lead them up the stairs to the second floor, and leave them in the fourth office, where there was a metal bunk bed with a mattress.

The detainees were interrogated by DINA personnel. Later, when the detainees were returned to the hall, on one occasion he saw that one arrived in poor physical condition; he walked with difficulty, he does not remember noticing any bruises, and they did not say anything nor did they complain; they only wanted to go to the bathroom.

He details that a closed van arrived at the Londres 38 facility, into which some detainees were loaded, who were supposedly being transferred to another facility. He performed gate guard duties at Londres 38 until the month of September 1974.

Source: Judiciary Branch