The 27th Civil Court of Santiago ordered the State to pay compensation of $60,000,000 to the son of Ricardo Solari Longo, who was murdered on January 1, 1974, by State agents while walking on Avenida Vicuña Mackenna in Santiago.

In its ruling (case file 5.908-2015), Judge Jacqueline Dunlop Echavarría upheld the lawsuit filed by Ricardo Solari Rivera and established that the homicide of his father is a crime against humanity, which is imprescriptible from both a criminal and civil perspective. “That, from the merits of the case, the documents identified in the fifth motive, and especially the copy of the final judgment dated October 30, 2013, issued in the first instance by Minister Mario Carroza Espinosa, in Case File 697-2011 under Extraordinary Visitation at the 34th Criminal Court of Santiago, along with the partial modification following the cassation appeal heard by the Honorable Supreme Court, in the part that issues a replacement sentence in Court Entry No. 11.983-2014, Second Chamber, only insofar as it pronounces itself regarding the civil aspects of the appealed sentence by upholding the claim for damages filed by the surviving spouse and three daughters of the victim, it is established that Mr. Ricardo Aldo Solari Longo indeed died on January 1, 1974, at the Central Health Service, Public Assistance, at 9:45 PM, after having received a gunshot wound to the thorax while walking in the vicinity of the embassy of the Argentine Republic in Santiago, as a result of a shot fired by personnel of the Carabineros de Chile who were on guard duty, an act that was classified as the crime of qualified homicide and for which Heriberto Samuel Flores Müller, a carabinero assigned to the Sixth Precinct of Santiago at the time of the aforementioned events, was convicted as the perpetrator. Likewise, it is possible to establish, through the birth certificate provided by the plaintiff Mr. Ricardo Aldo Solari Rivera, his status as the son of Mr. Ricardo Aldo Solari Longo, and that the latter was classified as a victim of human rights violations in the respective reports of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation,” the ruling states. It adds that: “from the merits of the case, it is possible to establish that these same facts described in the preceding paragraph are those that support the claim for damages filed by the plaintiff against the State of Chile, as a result of the damages suffered in his capacity as the son of Mr. Ricardo Aldo Solari Longo, due to the violent and unjustified death of the latter at the hands of State agents, facts that fall within the classification of a crime against humanity and which constitute, therefore, a grave violation of international human rights standards.”

Source: elclarin.cl, July 22, 2017