This concerns the case regarding the homicide of Iván Quinteros Martínez in San Miguel.

The accused are retired Army officer Francisco Orellana Seguel and former Navy civilian employee Mario Galarce Gil. Judge Cifuentes issued an indictment in this case regarding the death of a MIR militant.

The visiting judge of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes, issued an indictment in the investigation into the qualified homicide of MIR militant Iván Quinteros Martínez, perpetrated on December 17, 1981, in the commune of San Miguel.

In the case, the magistrate prosecuted retired Army officer Francisco Orellana Seguel and former Navy civilian employee Mario Galarce Gil as responsible for the homicide committed in a sector of Callejón Lo Ovalle.

According to the case records, "it is sufficiently established in the files that an operational group belonging to the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) was searching for a person with specific characteristics in the area of Gran Avenida and Callejón Lo Ovalle." "In that context, on December 17, 1981, around 10:15 a.m., while Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez was riding a bicycle along Callejón Lo Ovalle heading east, he was intercepted by two agents belonging to the aforementioned group, who were traveling on a motorcycle and pursued him along said thoroughfare," the text adds.

Subsequently, it continues, "(...) upon Quinteros Martínez dismounting from the bicycle he was riding, his pursuers fired at him, striking him five times in different parts of his body, causing his death. The act constitutes the crime of consummated homicide against the person of Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez, an illicit act provided for and sanctioned under Article 391 No. 2 of the Penal Code."

Source: cooperativa.cl, September 24, 2014

Order issued for former CNI agents convicted of qualified homicide to enter Colina I prison

With this resolution, Judge Cifuentes ordered the enforcement of the ruling that sentenced former Navy civilian employee Mario Galarce Gil and retired Army official Francisco Orellana Seguel to 15 years in prison, following the Supreme Court's rejection on Monday, August 6, of the appeals filed against the conviction issued by Judge Cifuentes in the case.

The extraordinary visiting judge for human rights violation cases of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, ordered this Friday the entry into the Colina I prison of two former agents of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) convicted as perpetrators of the consummated crime of qualified homicide of Iván Alfredo Quinteros Ruiz, perpetrated on December 17, 1981, on a public street.

With this resolution, Judge Cifuentes ordered the enforcement of the ruling that sentenced former Navy civilian employee Mario Galarce Gil and retired Army official Francisco Orellana Seguel to 15 years in prison, following the Supreme Court's rejection on Monday, August 6, of the appeals filed against the conviction issued by Judge Cifuentes in the case.

During the investigation stage, the visiting judge established that: "At the time of the events, Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez was a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). During that period, Mario Francisco Galarce Gil, a civilian employee of the Chilean Navy, and Francisco Orellana Seguel, an official of the Chilean Army, were on special assignment at the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), forming part of a group dedicated to the repression of MIR members." "On December 17, 1981, at 10:15 a.m., while Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez was traveling on a bicycle along Avenida Lo Ovalle heading east, followed by Mario Francisco Galarce Gil and Francisco Javier Orellana Seguel, each armed with a .38 caliber revolver, they fired upon him."

Source: elmostrador.cl, August 17, 2018

Convictions confirmed against two former CNI agents for 1981 murder of MIR militant

The Supreme Court, in a ruling issued this Monday (case file 41.554-2017) by the Second Chamber of the high court—composed of justices Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Lamberto Cisternas, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, and Jorge Dahm—sentenced former CNI agents Mario Francisco Galarce Gil, a former civilian employee of the Navy, and former Army non-commissioned officer Francisco Javier Orellana Seguel to 15 years in prison as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of 31-year-old Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez, committed on December 17, 1981, in the commune of San Miguel, Santiago.

With this resolution, the Court confirmed the first-instance ruling issued by Judge Marianela Cifuentes in January 2017. During the investigation stage of the case, the visiting judge for human rights violation cases of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, established that: "At the time of the events, Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez was a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR).

During that period, Mario Francisco Galarce Gil, a civilian employee of the Chilean Navy, and Francisco Orellana Seguel, an official of the Chilean Army, were on special assignment at the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), forming part of a group dedicated to the repression of MIR members.

On December 17, 1981, at 10:15 a.m., while Iván Alfredo Quinteros Martínez was traveling on a bicycle along Avenida Lo Ovalle heading east, followed by Mario Francisco Galarce Gil and Francisco Javier Orellana Seguel, each armed with a .38 caliber revolver, they fired upon him.

Iván Quinteros Martínez received the impact of 5 .38 caliber ballistic projectiles that entered through the right cervical region, right cheek, lower third of the left posterior thorax, external side of the right knee, and external side of the right thigh, leaving him lying on the road, in front of the property marked No. 437 on Avenida Lo Ovalle." Both Mario Galarce Gil, alias "Loco Mario" and "Marino Loco," and Francisco Orellana Seguel, alias "El Manzana," were seasoned repressive agents who were part of the DINA and later the CNI.

Source: resumen.cl, August 9, 2018