Judge Jaime Arancibia issued indictments and ordered the arrest of ten former CNI agents for the crime of qualified homicide of a 19-year-old woman, a militant of the Communist Party (PC), in Viña del Mar.

According to the records, the events date back to July 12, 1983, during the Third Day of National Protest, in the Recreo sector, in the upper part of the "garden city," when agents descended from a utility van and began firing bursts of machine-gun fire at the protesters.

There was a second vehicle positioned at the intersection of Calle del Agua and Avenida Viña del Mar, which prevented people from fleeing or taking cover. In that context, a bullet struck Carmen Gloria Larenas Molina in the chest, causing her death.

Thus, the crime of qualified homicide was established, for which Judge Jaime Arancibia indicted and ordered the immediate arrest of Sergio Remigio Echeverría Villarroel, Carlos Herrera Jiménez, Galvarino Arce Díaz, Ramiro Enrique Rodríguez Santana, Germán Humberto Miranda Jamett, Juan Eugenio Escalona Estay, Hugo Luis Castillo Ovalle, and Leoncio Enrique Velásquez.

All as perpetrators of the crime. Meanwhile, Héctor Santiago Figueroa González and Roberto Armando Toledo Herrera were identified as accomplices to the same murder.

Source: BioBio, October 03, 2018