On July 4, the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals ratified a resolution by Judge Muñoz that annulled seven indictments. This decision favored Misael Galleguillos, former Secretary General of the SGG; Valericio Orrego Salas, former president of the Ministry of Public Works workers; and five former CNI agents.

They are retired Lieutenant Colonel Raúl Descalsi Sporke—who appeared as an alleged perpetrator—Nelson Hernández Franco, Raúl Lillo Gutiérrez, Héctor Lira Aravena, and José Ramírez Romero, a former captain and former Carabineros non-commissioned officer, respectively.

In the proceedings, the first two were linked to the initial investigation of the ANEF leader, and the other five to the surveillance conducted prior to the murder. Both the plaintiff and the CDE filed an appeal against this resolution, but it was rejected. "We believe they are implicated and we are going to insist," says Saavedra.

Of the CNI, only the deputy director of the CNI, Roberto Schmied, and former agents Humberto Calderón Luna, Miguel Hernández Oyarce, and Julio Olivares Silva remain under indictment. However, Sergio Muñoz chose to focus on the core of the matter, targeting the material and intellectual authors of the murder who belonged to the DINE.

On June 21, he indicted non-commissioned officers José Cáceres and Humberto Olmedo as perpetrators, and Juan Carlos Arriagada as an accomplice. On July 10, he did the same with dentist Jorge León Alessandrini, who was in the DINE under Arriagada's orders, accused of providing the .22 caliber Pasper revolver used to kill the union leader.

Among those indicted are two former generals who were directors of the DINE: Ramsés Alvarez Scoglia (alleged perpetrator) and Hernán Ramírez Rurange (accessory), who is accused of allowing Carlos Herrera to leave for Argentina in 1991 to evade justice.

Also listed as perpetrators are the former DINE commander, retired Brigadier Víctor Pinto Pérez, Manuel Contreras Donaire, and Leonardo Quilodrán. In addition, Galvarino Ancavil Hernández, a former CNI agent, who supposedly lives in France.

By the end of the year, an active-duty general could be indicted as an accomplice, which would be a first. According to the electronic newspaper "El Mostrador," this would be Hernán Ramírez Hald, head of the Army's Military Industry and Engineering Command (CIMI) and former deputy director of the War Academy.

Alessandrini and Arriagada were under his command at the time of the murder. Measures involving Pinochet are not ruled out either; the special judge sent him a request for information when he was detained in London, which the former dictator did not answer "due to not having files within his reach." Carlos Herrera Jiménez, the alleged perpetrator of the shots, was serving in the CNI, where he gained fame as an executioner.

However, two months before the murder of Tucapel Jiménez, between November and December 1981, he was transferred to the DINE and only returned to the CNI after the crime occurred, at the end of March or the beginning of April 1982.

In other words, he participated in the homicide under the orders of Alvarez Scoglia, a military officer known for his impetuous and "dim-witted" character, who was trying to earn favor with Pinochet. Aware of these facts, Jorge Mario Saavedra declared that "the army hid information or lied, because in the file there are two official letters from that institution stating that Herrera belonged to the CNI at the date of the crime."

Source: puntofinal.cl, October 6, 2000