The Supreme Court confirmed the sentence condemning retired Carabineros members René Ortega Troncoso and Fernando Durán Concha to 15 years and one day of imprisonment as perpetrators of the qualified homicides of José Alejandro Tapia Muñoz and Héctor Juan Malvino Campos, crimes committed on October 8, 1973, in the Santa Mónica neighborhood of Conchalí.

In a unanimous ruling, the Second Chamber of the high court rejected the appeals in cassation filed by the defense teams of the former police officers.

In the first-instance ruling, visiting judge Mario Carroza established that in the early hours of October 8, 1973, Carabineros officers from the ‘Eneas Gonel’ station—Luis Fernando Donoso Concha, Onofre Roberto Andrade Bahamonde, and Luis Bravo Hernández—led by Lieutenant René Ortega, raided the property located at Calle Río Amazona N° 3662, in the Santa Mónica neighborhood, Conchalí commune, without a judicial warrant and while armed.

Inside said residence, the police proceeded to detain the occupants José Alejandro Tapia Muñoz and Héctor Malvino Campos, "whom they removed from the property and ordered to board a white Ford pickup truck, and under custody, they transported them to an unknown location, without informing them or their families where they were being taken," the confirmed ruling states.

The resolution adds that: "days later, the families of the aforementioned victims found their lifeless bodies at the Legal Medical Institute, whose Autopsy Protocols, signed with numbers 3194/73 and 3195/73, indicate the date of death for Héctor Juan Malvino Campos as October 8, 1973, at 03:00 hours, on a public road, and as the cause of death 'multiple (thirty-two) gunshot wounds with projectile entry and exit points, distributed across both upper and lower extremities, thorax, abdomen, and cranium,' and, in the case of José Alejandro Tapia Muñoz, the date of death as October 8, 1973, on a public road, and as the cause of death 'gunshot wounds (four), transfixing, thoraco-abdominal, cervical, facio-cervical, and brachial.'"

Source: elciudadano.cl, April 24, 2017