José Domingo Quiroz Opazo
Comerciante — 26 years old.
Background
José Domingo Quiroz Opazo
Comerciante — 26 years old.
Case summary
José Domingo Quiroz Opazo, a 26-year-old merchant and militant of the E.L.N., was a victim of a human rights violation on October 27, 1975, in Santiago. His case is one of the crimes committed during the Chilean dictatorship that was subsequently investigated by the justice system.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On October 27, 1975, two operational groups of the Carabineros Intelligence Service (Sicar) raided the workshop of socialist militant José Domingo QUIROZ OPAZO, a member of the Elenos faction, in Santiago.
According to testimonies analyzed by this Commission, the agents subdued the five people present at the scene and took the victim to one of the rooms in the workshop, where he was placed against the wall; an officer shot him in the head, and he was subsequently finished off by another officer.
Immediately thereafter, the commander of the operation ordered his personnel to fire at the walls to simulate a confrontation, a version of events that was broadcast by the press at the time.
The Commission reached the conviction that José Quiroz was executed by state agents, in violation of his human rights.
Judicial Case Files[2]
José Quiroz Opazo
- Mario Carroza
- 1243-2016
- 33750-17
- 575-2011
- Metropolitana De Santiago
- Sergio Avila Quiroga
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=1878
- 2Judicial Case Fileshttps://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/jose-quiroz-opazo/