The psychiatric report indicates that the retired Sergeant Major, Germán Lobera Contreras, presents a depressive episode and mental disorder that warrants specialized medical treatment and supervision due to suicide risk.

Due to mental insanity, the justice system acquitted a retired Carabineros officer who tortured and killed a peasant on Isla Quenac, in the commune of Quinchao, during the military dictatorship. The Supreme Court resolution, signed by the visiting judge Álvaro Mesa, establishes that the illicit act was committed, but exempts the retired Sergeant Major, Germán Lobera Contreras, from criminal responsibility for the death of Juan Lleucún Lleucún on October 8, 1973.

According to witnesses, the victim was taken from his home by three Carabineros, who beat him with weapons and fists, took him to a police station where they continued with the illegitimate coercion, and finally killed him.

Alicia Lira, president of the Association of Relatives of Political Executions, maintained that human rights violators "continue to hide behind dementia to avoid being held responsible" for their crimes.

Alfredo Árgel, of the Association of Forcibly Disappeared and Political Executions, stated that the case demonstrates "that there has been no justice." The psychiatric report indicates that the retired Sergeant Major, Germán Lobera Contreras, presents a depressive episode and mental disorder that warrants specialized medical treatment and supervision due to suicide risk.

Source: cambio21.cl, November 27, 2017