A Chilean court sentenced eight former military officers for their varying degrees of participation in the “Caravan of Death,” a mission carried out by repressors in 1973, following the coup d'état led by dictator Augusto Pinochet, to transport and murder a hundred political prisoners across different locations in the country.

The Santiago Court of Appeals concluded with a unanimous ruling the trial investigating 26 homicides that occurred on October 19, 1973, in the city of Calama, located 1,500 kilometers north of Santiago.

The court sentenced Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Juan Viterbo Chiminelli to life imprisonment, while Óscar Figueroa Martínez received a 16-year sentence; Carlos Langer von Furstenberg, Hernán Rómulo Núñez, and Víctor Santander Véliz received 15 years; and Emilio de la Mahotiere González and Luis Felipe Polanco received 12 years. The only person acquitted was Álvaro Romero Reyes.

Among the victims was Carlos Berger Guralnik, husband of Carmen Hertz, a current deputy of the Communist Party, who celebrated the ruling on social media.

The accused held various positions in the Army during the dictatorship (1973-1990), and for their crimes, the State must pay compensation ranging from 12,000 to 73,000 dollars to the families of those murdered.

In its ruling, the judges explained that they analyzed the crime of repeated qualified homicide committed “with treachery and premeditation” on October 19, 1973.

“According to the evidence provided by the case, it is undeniable that all the victims were put to death by firing squad, on the same occasion, in the Topater sector of the city of Calama,” they stated in a document in which they also recalled that the repressors made the remains of three of the victims disappear.

“This is due exclusively to the ignominious actions taken after taking their lives, in order to try to erase every trace of their existence, through the exhumation of their bodies, on at least two occasions, and, finally, by throwing their bones into the sea, so that these three people were also victims of homicide,” they specified.

Source: elpaisvallenato.com, May 19, 2020

New indictments were issued by investigating judge Víctor Montiglio within the framework of the Caravan of Death case against 13 retired Army officers for qualified homicides committed in Copiapó and Calama.

The indictments affect retired Brigadier Patricio Díaz Araneda, and retired officers Ricardo Yáñez Mora, Waldo Antonio Ojeda, and Marcelo Marambio Molina, for 13 victims who were detained on October 17, 1973, in Copiapó.

The magistrate also indicted retired officers Edwin Herbstard Gálvez, Fernando Castillo Cruz, Ramón Zúñiga Ormeño, and Oscar Pastén Morales as authors of the qualified homicide of three union leaders murdered on the afternoon of the same day.

Meanwhile, for the death of 26 victims in the town of Calama on October 19, 1973, Montiglio indicted the colonel and commander of the regiment in that city, Eugenio Rivera, Brigadier Carlos Langer, Major Carlos Minoletti Arraigada, Colonel Víctor Santander Véliz, and Sergeant Major Jerónimo Rojo.

Among the 26 victims in Calama is Carlos Berger, who was the husband of human rights lawyer Carmen Hertz. The indicted retired officers will be notified this morning at the court premises, to then be taken to the Peñalolén Police Battalion where they will remain detained.

The new indictment is in addition to the reclassification of the crimes that Montiglio carried out last week in the same case, at which time he excluded the crime of kidnapping from these proceedings.

Source: emol.cl, March 21, 2006

In the Caravan of Death case, the Court of Appeals indicts 12 people

The Antofagasta Court of Appeals indicted 12 people, including civilians and military personnel, for the crimes of qualified homicide against 28 people that occurred in the city of Calama on October 19, 1973.

In a unanimous ruling, the judges of the appellate court Enrique Álvarez, Oscar Clavería, and the associate lawyer Nancy Mellado indicted Armando Fernández Larios and Eugenio Rivera Desgroux for the crime of illicit association.

Likewise, Armando Fernández Larios, Eugenio Rivera Desgroux, Carlos Max George Langer Von Furstemberg, Carlos Humberto Minolleti Arriagada, and Jerónimo Tomás Rojo Rojo were indicted as authors of the repeated crime of qualified homicide.

In addition, doctor Luis Benito Rojas Delzo and Luis Mario Aracena Romo, Julio Fernando Salazar Lantery, Oscar Figueroa Márquez, Domingo Antonio Flores Figueroa, Miguel Eduardo Trincado Araneda, and the chaplain Luis Exequiel Jorquera Molina were accused as accessories to the same crime.

In the cases of Fernández Larios, Minoletti Arriagada, and Rojas Delzo, the court ordered the initiation of procedures to request their extradition from the Supreme Court, as they are currently outside the country.

For the remaining defendants, an arrest warrant was ordered to be issued so that they may be placed in preventive detention.

Source: La Segunda, August 31, 2007

Caravan of Death in Prison

Those implicated in the Caravan of Death are arrested. They are accused of the qualified homicide of 72 people.

Calama. The group was notified yesterday at the Second Court of Calama by the Extraordinary Visiting Minister of the Antofagasta Court.

Seven people implicated in the events that occurred in October 1973, related to the actions of what is known in history as the Caravan of Death, were notified yesterday in Calama of the indictment against them for the crime of qualified homicide.

The proceeding took place at the facilities of the Second Court of Calama and was led by the Extraordinary Visiting Minister, María Rosa Pinto Egusquiza, of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals.

According to information provided by the visiting minister herself, seven of the ten people indicted for varying degrees of responsibility in case 37.340 participated in the proceeding, having appeared in Antofagasta, Calama, and Santiago to be notified of the Court of Appeals' resolution regarding the responsibility that may be attributed to them.

The seven entered the Topáter Regiment as indicted prisoners, under the custody and surveillance, as well as the security measures adopted by the Army, given that most of them, except for one, are retired officers.

Case 37.340 was initiated due to the illegal exhumation of skeletal remains carried out in Calama on the road to San Pedro de Atacama, but the seven individuals were notified of the indictment for repeated qualified homicide.

The arrival of the group in Calama resulted in intense activity at the Second Court, and the main proceedings ended after 6:00 PM.

Security The basic aspect of the procedure was the notification of the indictment to each of those involved, and only one of those summoned provided statements, as made known by the visiting minister. The event caused widespread expectation, which was increased by the large security deployment set up around the Second Court of Calama.

The guards, including personnel from the Army, Carabineros, and Detectives, were distributed up to no less than fifty meters from the court building.

The visiting minister declined to go into details on the matter and indicated that she understands that the Public Relations Department of the Judiciary has reported on it.

Thus, the next steps of the process are unknown, or whether they will take place in Calama or in other parts of the country.

Among those notified are Miguel Trincado, Julio Salazar Lanteri, Colonel Luis Aracena Romo, Colonel Carlos Langer von Forthenberg, Colonel Domingo Flores Figueroa, and Sergeant Major Sergio López Maldonado.

Three people have yet to appear, among them the chaplain Luis Jorquera, who is hospitalized in the Military Hospital suffering from cerebral edema.

Deceased Clearly, the case is related to the actions of the Caravan of Death, according to the claims that have been made by the families of the forcibly disappeared and political executions of 1973, and who have not yet managed to identify the skeletal remains found in different parts of the Loa province.

Among those executed by firing squad on October 19 by the so-called Caravan of Death led by General Sergio Arellano Stark, as all presumptions indicate, are the residents of Calama: Mario Argüéllez Toro, Carlos Berger Guralnik, Haroldo Cabrera Abarzúa, Gerónimo Carpanchay Choque, Bernardino Cayo Cayo, Carlos Escobedo Caris, Luis Gahona Ochoa, Daniel Garrido Muñoz, Luis Hernández Neira, Manuel Hidalgo Rivas, Rolando Hoyos Salazar, Domingo Mamani López, David Miranda Luna, Hernán Moreno Villarroel, Luis Moreno Villarroel, Rosario Muñoz Castillo, Víctor Ortega Cuevas, Milton Muñoz Muñoz, Rafael Pineda Ibacache, Carlos Piñero Lucero, Sergio Ramírez Espinoza, Fernando Ramírez Sánchez, Alejandro Rodríguez, Roberto Rojas Alcayaga, José Saavedra González, Jorge Yueng Rojas.

Decision of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals

The actions carried out yesterday in Calama respond to the decision of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals, which was made known on August 31, and according to the judiciary's website, twelve people, including civilians and former military personnel, were indicted for the crime of qualified homicide against 28 people that occurred in the city of Calama on October 19, 1973.

In a unanimous ruling, the judges of the appellate court Enrique Álvarez, Óscar Clavería, and the associate lawyer Nancy Mellado indicted Armando Fernández Larios and Eugenio Rivera Desgroux for the crime of illicit association.

Likewise, Armando Fernández Larios, Eugenio Rivera Desgroux, Carlos Max George Langer von Furstemberg, Carlos Humberto Minolleti Arriagada, and Jerónimo Tomás Rojo Rojo were indicted as authors of the repeated crime of qualified homicide.

Accessories In addition, doctor Luis Benito Rojas Delzo and Luis Mario Aracena Romo, Julio Fernando Salazar Lantery, Óscar Figueroa Márquez, Domingo Antonio Flores Figueroa, Miguel Eduardo Trincado Araneda, and the chaplain Luis Exequiel Jorquera Molina were accused as accessories to the same crime.

In the cases of Fernández Larios, Minolleti Arriagada, and Rojas Delzo, the court ordered the initiation of procedures to request their extradition from the Supreme Court, as they are currently outside the country. For the remaining defendants, an arrest warrant was ordered to be issued so that they may be placed in preventive detention.

Process Initiated by Minister Juan Guzmán

Minister Juan Guzmán signed the resolution on February 8, 2005, through which he decreed the end of the investigation stage of the military committee that traveled the country from north to south, carrying out kidnappings and homicides of opponents of the dictatorship between September and October 1973.

The Caravan of Death case began to be investigated in January 1998, and the person who led the operation, Sergio Arellano Stark, was indicted for having responsibility in the death of all the victims: 57 executed and 19 kidnapped.

Furthermore, the process led to the stripping of immunity and subsequent arrest of Pinochet in 2001, and it was the first case of human rights violations for which the military officer was indicted. According to the file of Minister Juan Guzmán, 72 executions were carried out: four in Cauquenes, 26 in Calama, 14 in Antofagasta, 13 in Copiapó, and 15 in La Serena.

The committee, aboard a Puma helicopter, arrived in Cauquenes on October 4, 1973. Twelve days later, it arrived in La Serena, where the 15 executed victims were taken from the regiment in that city.

That same October 16, it also landed in Copiapó. On the 18th, it arrived in Antofagasta, where 14 political prisoners were removed from the jail and executed in the Way ravine. The following day, the helicopter arrived in Calama, where 26 people were executed by firing squad. Of these, 13 bodies are still missing.

The magistrate ordered the arrest of five former Army officers on June 10, 1999, for this investigation. Among them were retired General Sergio Arellano Stark, retired Brigadier Pedro Espinoza, Colonels Marcelo Moren and Sergio Arredondo, and Major Armando Fernández Larios.

In Calama Subsequently, in Calama, the actions were assigned to the Second Court when the incumbent magistrate of that court was designated as an extraordinary human rights judge.

The consequence was the discovery of skeletal remains in different parts of the province, in addition to other items that allowed for the first identifications of the forcibly disappeared. Some of the identified pieces were a surprise because they belonged to people who were supposedly thrown into the sea, as in the case of Domingo Mamani, of whom a button from his jacket was found.

Source: El Mercurio de Calama, September 8, 2007

Release of those implicated in the Caravan of Death case

Last night, those detained for their involvement in the illegal exhumation of corpses, who were being held in the Topáter Regiment as prisoners after being indicted by the Antofagasta Court of Appeals on August 31, were notified of their release.

The notification took place at the Second Court of Calama and was carried out by Minister Enrique Alvarez, who traveled from Antofagasta exclusively to fulfill that task. In addition to completing that procedure, he explained to the families of the political executions that the decision was due to the fact that the case is in the hands of Minister Montiglio.

The procedure led to the presence in the public buildings area of families of the forcibly disappeared and political executions of the El Loa Province, who, in an improvised exhibition, showed photographs of those executed by the Caravan of Death, as well as other detainees who were killed and whose small remains have been found and identified by the Legal Medical Service of Santiago.

Supreme Court Yesterday, the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice accepted the writs of amparo (habeas corpus) presented by retired military officers Carlos Langer and Miguel Trincado against the resolution of the Second Chamber of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals that decided to indict them in connection with the case of illegal exhumation perpetrated in Calama.

As a consequence of that decision, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of the petitioners, as well as those "who are deprived of it, regarding the indictments that are rendered ineffective by this decision, if they are not deprived of it for another reason or cause," as established by the ruling issued yesterday.

As reported, on August 31, the Antofagasta Court of Appeals indicted 12 people, including civilians and former military personnel, for the crime of qualified homicide against 28 people that occurred in the city of Calama on October 19, 1973.

In a unanimous ruling, the judges of the appellate court Enrique Álvarez, Óscar Clavería, and the associate lawyer Nancy Mellado indicted Armando Fernández Larios and Eugenio Rivera Desgroux for the crime of illicit association.

Likewise, Armando Fernández Larios, Eugenio Rivera Desgroux, Carlos Max George Langer von Furstemberg, Carlos Humberto Minolleti Arriagada, and Jerónimo Tomás Rojo Rojo were indicted as authors of the repeated crime of qualified homicide.

In addition, doctor Luis Benito Rojas Delzo and Luis Mario Aracena Romo, Julio Fernando Salazar Lantery, Óscar Figueroa Márquez, Domingo Antonio Flores Figueroa, Miguel Eduardo Trincado Araneda, and the chaplain Luis Exequiel Jorquera Molina were accused as accessories to the same crime.

In the cases of Fernández Larios, Minoletti Arriagada, and Rojas Delzo, the court ordered the initiation of procedures to request their extradition from the Supreme Court, as they are currently outside the country.

Ruling on amparo

The ruling that rendered the decision of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals ineffective was pronounced yesterday after lawyer Luis Valentín Ferrada Valenzuela presented a writ of amparo to the Supreme Court on behalf of Miguel Trincado Araneda, a retired Army general, and on his own behalf, Carlos George Max Langer Von Furstenberg, against the ministers of the Second Chamber of the Antofagasta Court of Appeals.

He stated that the members, while hearing an appeal filed by the defenses of three other defendants in the proceedings before the Visiting Minister of the Second Criminal Court of Calama, Rosa María Pinto Egusquiza, in Case No. 28-2007, proceeded ex officio to indict the aforementioned petitioners as an accessory to the repeated crime of qualified homicide and as an author of the same crime, respectively.

Other considerations include that, succinctly, they maintain that such decisions are arbitrary, as they not only lack any reasoning but, fundamentally, because the ministers involved would have no competence or jurisdiction, since they indicted the petitioners despite the existence of another court to which the knowledge of the same facts was entrusted.

On February 4, 2005, it was resolved, in the same Case No. 2182-98, to separate all the background information related to the findings of skeletal remains from Case No. 37.340-A-8, which is attached to the same process, which was sent to the Second Criminal Court of Calama, as it corresponds to its knowledge and resolution.

According to the records added by the Minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mr. Montiglio Rezzio, on May 10, 2005, the agreement of the Plenary of this Honorable Supreme Court held on the sixth of the same month and year was transcribed to him, with the purpose of communicating that he should continue the substantiation of the processes, until their final conclusion, which were in charge, due to the jurisdiction, of the former Minister of that court, Mr.

Juan Guzmán Tapia, referred among others, to the chapter known as the Caravan of Death, Episode "A" Calama Case No. 2182-98. Regarding the petitioner Langer Von Furstenberg, he is indicted in Case No. 2182-98, as a co-author of various qualified homicides, perpetrated in the Topáter sector of the city of Calama on October 19, 1973, a decision that was confirmed by the Santiago Court of Appeals on July 6, 2006, a charge that, now, the Antofagasta Court of Appeals, in relation to identical facts, makes effective in the decision appealed for amparo to which reference has already been made.

Meanwhile, the defendant Trincado Araneda is only so in the case that is being followed in the latter city, as an accessory to the repeated crime of qualified homicide.

Another consideration, the seventh, adds that the above implies, manifestly, that the appellate court proceeded illegally to pronounce itself regarding facts that are not related to the competence given to the Visiting Minister of the Second Criminal Court of Calama, Rosa María Pinto Egusquiza, who only focuses on the investigation of aspects related to illegal exhumations that occurred in that Region; since the investigation of everything related to the crimes of kidnapping and homicide is substantiated by the Minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mr.

Víctor Montiglio, in Case No. 2182-98 letter "A" Calama.

Such conduct implied for the petitioners an affectation of the principle of non bis in idem, and the competence of the courts established by law, since the same facts were already known to another court, whose competence emanated from an express agreement of this Court; and that in the case of Langer Von Furstenberg, it reached the extreme of registering two indictments regarding the same matter, being released on bail in the case that is being followed in this city, since March 23 of last year, and contradictorily in preventive detention for the one that is being followed in Antofagasta.

Without effect And in accordance with what is established by articles 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic and 540 of the Organic Code of Courts, ex officio, the indictment of August 30, 2007, also issued ex officio by the Antofagasta Court of Appeals, is rendered ineffective.

The ruling was pronounced by the Second Chamber composed of ministers Alberto Chaigneau, Nibaldo Segura, Jaime Rodríguez, Rubén Ballesteros, and Hugo Dolmestch.

Source: Mercurio Calama, September 13, 2007

Riggs: three high-ranking retired army officers interrogated

As it transpired, detectives arrived in the afternoon at the Military Hotel, located in Providencia, to take a statement from retired General Carlos George Langer Von Furstenberg, former military attaché of Chile in Germany.

With the interrogation of three retired Army generals, the proceedings in the Riggs case continued yesterday, which had been suspended after the Santiago Court of Appeals ordered Minister Carlos Cerda to temporarily disqualify himself from hearing the case, after accepting for processing the recusal presented against him by the defense of Óscar Aitken, Pinochet's former executor.

The round of interviews was reactivated with a resolution issued by the current substitute for Minister Cerda, the judge of the 30th Civil Court of Santiago, María Eugenia Campo, who gave the green light to the Task Force and Reserved Investigations of the civil police to carry out the inquiries decreed by the magistrate before abandoning the process.

As it transpired, the detectives arrived in the afternoon at the Military Hotel, located in Providencia, to take a statement from retired General Carlos George Langer Von Furstenberg, who served in the military attaché office of Chile in Germany.

The police officers also interrogated retired General Roberto Guillard Marinot, former intendant of the Metropolitan Region, and retired Colonel Sucre Elgueta Segura.

So far, the logic followed by these interrogations is to tie up some loose ends regarding the money that passed through the European attaché offices. Also, whether Guillard could have had knowledge of other expenses incurred by the former dictator.

Travel documents

Meanwhile, Minister Campo reported yesterday in one of her resolutions that the response to a request sent by the previous minister, Sergio Muñoz, arrived from Venezuela and was added to the file.

Sources close to the process assured that in that letter rogatory, information was requested regarding financial movements carried out in that country by Jacqueline Pinochet Hiriart, daughter of the former dictator.

Likewise, the magistrate noted that the Pinochet Foundation became a party to the case. The procedural act occurred as a result of the court requesting, on February 15, from Banco Chile, a list of financial movements of three accounts belonging to this institution between 1998 and 2004.

It is suspected that part of the assets that Pinochet had in foreign banks could have passed through that organization in order to legalize them and thus be able to use them in the activities they carried out.

For this reason, the substitute magistrate seeks to determine if in account No. 164-03970-08, opened in 1998 when Pinochet was detained in London, there were donations coming from the former uniformed officer himself or his family environment.

Sources linked to the process revealed that the bank asked the judiciary -through an official letter- to specify in what capacity the Foundation was in the case before delivering the information.

CEMA

In another aspect of the case, the court received the expert report on the library that the former dictator ordered to be built in 1984 at his residence in El Melocotón.

The document concludes that, after reviewing the background information collected in the investigation and the statements made by an architect and one of the administrators of the CEMA Chile foundation, the organization intervened in the construction of the library.

This is because the architect Ruth Ballevona, who worked for that institution directed by Pinochet's wife, Lucía Hiriart, collaborated in the design of the plans. CEMA also provided workers -hired to build the social housing that the Foundation provided at that time to people with limited resources- with the objective of building the aforementioned library.

This information is confirmed in the statement of the administrator Álvaro Romero, who maintained that the CEMA Chile Foundation "took charge of the work for security measures, as it was the house of the then President of the Republic."

The report also established that about 14 million pesos of the time were spent on the construction of the library, which were paid to Romero by Lucía Hiriart, with a check from the Banco de Chile "whose current account was in the name of Mr. Augusto Pinochet." LN

Source: La Nación, March 8, 2006

Retired military officers are convicted for 26 homicides of the “Caravan of Death”: Includes murder of Carmen Hertz's husband

The Sixth Chamber of the Santiago appellate court sentenced, in a unanimous ruling, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Juan Viterbo Chiminelli to life imprisonment, as authors of the 26 homicides, among which is that of Carlos Berger Guralnik, husband of the communist deputy Carmen Hertz.

The Santiago Court of Appeals, reports Cooperativa, sentenced eight retired military officers for their responsibility in 26 homicides that occurred during the passage of the “Caravan of Death” through Calama, on October 19, 1973.

The Sixth Chamber of the Santiago appellate court sentenced, in a unanimous ruling, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Juan Viterbo Chiminelli to life imprisonment, as authors of the 26 homicides, among which is that of Carlos Berger Guralnik, husband of the communist deputy Carmen Hertz.

In the case of Carlos Langer von Furstenberg, Hernán Rómulo Núñez, and Víctor Santander Véliz, they were sentenced to 15 years and one day as authors of the repeated crime of qualified homicide, while Óscar Figueroa Martínez will have to serve a 16-year sentence.

Additionally, the Santiago Court established a 12-year prison sentence for Emilio de la Mahotiere González and Luis Felipe Polanco, in their capacity as accomplices to the 26 crimes. Álvaro Romero Reyes, for his part, was acquitted.

In the civil sphere, the sentence that ordered the Treasury to pay compensation ranging from 10 to 60 million pesos to the families of the victims murdered during the dictatorship was ratified.

Deputy Hertz will receive 50 million pesos and her son, Germán Berger Hertz, 30 million for the murder of Carlos Berger Guralnik.

Source: eldesconcierto.cl, May 19, 2020

While some ask for the release of these “poor grandpas”: Justice again sentences military officers to life imprisonment for 26 homicides in case

The Santiago Court of Appeals sentenced eight retired military officers for their responsibility in 26 homicides recorded during the passage of the so-called “Caravan of Death” through the city of Calama, Antofagasta Region, on October 19, 1973.

The Sixth Chamber of the capital's appellate court sentenced, in a unanimous ruling, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Juan Viterbo Chiminelli to life imprisonment, as authors of the 26 homicides, among which is that of Carlos Berger Guralnik, husband of the communist deputy Carmen Hertz.

Meanwhile, Carlos Langer von Furstenberg, Hernán Rómulo Núñez, and Víctor Santander Véliz were sentenced to 15 years and one day as authors of the repeated crime of qualified homicide, while Óscar Figueroa Martínez will have to serve a 16-year sentence.

Rolando Hoyos was one of the 26 murdered in Calama by the military committee led by Sergio Arellano Stark. (Photo: ATON)

In addition, the Santiago Court imposed a 12-year prison sentence for Emilio de la Mahotiere González and Luis Felipe Polanco, as accomplices to the 26 murders.

Meanwhile, Álvaro Romero Reyes was acquitted.

In the civil aspect, the sentence that ordered the Treasury to pay compensation ranging from 10 to 60 million pesos to the families of the victims was confirmed.

Deputy Hertz will receive 50 million pesos and her son, Germán Berger Hertz, 30 million for the murder of Carlos Berger Guralnik.

Source: chileokulto.org, May 19, 2020

Carmen Hertz after the conviction of her partner's murderers: “Justice so late is almost a denial of justice”

The PC parliamentarian expressed her grievances on social media after the Supreme Court ruling that sentenced former agents of the Caravan of Death committee for the murder of 26 political prisoners in 1973, among whom was her husband.

The Human Rights lawyer and Communist Party deputy, Carmen Hertz, published this Friday night on her Twitter account her grievance for the late Supreme Court ruling against the former Army agents who murdered her partner, Carlos Berguer, in 1973.

“Finally, after 49 years since the massacre of 26 political prisoners was executed, among them my husband, the lawyer and journalist Carlos Berguer Guralnik, in Calama by the Caravan of Death, a definitive ruling by the Supreme Court was issued,” the parliamentarian wrote to begin her thread on social media.

In it, she details that General Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Colonel Juan Chiminelli Fullerton were sentenced to life imprisonment as authors. “The only survivors of the criminal committee, the others died in impunity, among them Arellano Stark,” Hertz denounces.

Apart from these high commands, justice also ruled against officers Carlos Langer, Hernán Nuñez, and Víctor Santander, who were sentenced to 15 years and one day of major imprisonment for their participation in the events.

In addition, the pilots of the Puma helicopter that transported the former agents to the scene of the massacre, Emilio Mahotiere and Luis Felipe Polanco, received a sentence of 12 years of major imprisonment.

“Justice so late is almost a denial of justice,” reflected Deputy Carmen Hertz in her last tweet, to which several users and colleagues from her party responded, among them Mayor Daniel Jadue.

Source: eldesconcierto.cl, September 24, 2022