Guillermo Fuentes Ibarra
Obrero Serviu — 32 years old.
Background
Guillermo Fuentes Ibarra
Obrero Serviu — 32 years old.
Case summary
Guillermo Fuentes Ibarra, a 32-year-old Serviu worker with no political affiliation, was murdered on November 11, 1973, at his home in Santiago. An Air Force patrol, called by his wife following a domestic incident, shot him fatally in the chest when he resisted arrest, in an act classified as excessive use of force and a grave violation of human rights.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On November 11, 1973, Guillermo IBARRA FUENTES, 32 years old, a worker at the Housing and Urban Planning Service (SERVIU), was detained at his home by a patrol of the Chilean Air Force (FACH).
He had previously had an incident with his wife, who had gone to seek out a patrol that was in the vicinity. When they proceeded to detain him, he resisted, and one of the officers shot him in the chest, leaving him mortally wounded. He was subsequently taken to the Posta Nº 4 in Ñuñoa, where he died hours later.
The Commission formed the conviction that Guillermo Ibarra Fuentes died due to the excessive use of force by members of the Air Force patrol, constituting a grave violation of human rights.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=621