Guillermo Bermúdez Roco
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
Guillermo Bermúdez Roco
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
Guillermo Bermúdez Roco was a Carabineros corporal prosecuted as the perpetrator of the aggravated homicide of councilman Onofre Peña Castro, which occurred on October 9, 1973. He is linked to the detention and subsequent execution of the victim, who was machine-gunned in the area of the La Calavera tunnel after being transported from a local police station.
MemoriaViva[1]
The minister of the Valparaíso Court of Appeals, Jaime Arancibia Pinto, issued the indictment of three former Carabineros officers for the homicide of a man during the dictatorship. The individuals are Renán Ahumada Tapia, Guillermo Bermúdez Roco, and Orlando Astete Sánchez, who were indicted as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of Onofre Peña Castro.
Peña Castro was a councilman for the commune of Catemu, in the Valparaíso region, when the crime occurred on October 9, 1973, on the border between the localities of Ocoa and Hijuelas. The gathered evidence indicates that the man was detained by police officers and taken to the local station.
Later, he was allegedly taken to the La Calavera tunnel area, where he was machine-gunned, receiving bullet wounds to the head and thorax. “His body was found in an irrigation canal days later, that is, on October 17, 1973, by one of his sons,” the judicial resolution adds.
Source: biobiochile.cl, June 9, 2014
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