Luis Armando Vergara González
Obrero — 22 years old.
Background
Luis Armando Vergara González
Obrero — 22 years old.
Case summary
Luis Dagoberto San Martín Vergara was a 21-year-old agronomy student and member of the MIR. He was arrested by DINA agents on December 17, 1974, in Santiago, and was last seen at the Venda Sexy torture center, remaining forcibly disappeared since that time.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On October 15, 1973, the following individuals were forcibly disappeared:
Luis VERGARA GONZALEZ, 22 years old, laborer, and
Hernán PEÑA CATALAN, 20 years old, delivery assistant.
At 9:15 p.m. that day, Luis Vergara was detained in the La Faena neighborhood, a few blocks from his parents' home, by Carabineros from the 13th Los Guindos Precinct. The police officers went, accompanied by Vergara, to Hernán Peña's home.
Upon arrival, according to statements from family members, the officers said that they already had Vergara in their custody and that if they found Peña, they would kill him. During the course of that day, the same officers proceeded to raid the house. They asked for Peña, but he was not there as he was working.
Nothing more was heard of these two individuals, despite the multiple efforts made by both families.
Given that the detention of one of them by State agents has been verified, it is to be presumed that the other, whom those same agents were seeking, was also detained. Bearing in mind that there was never any further news of them and that there is no record of them leaving the country, this Commission has reached the conviction that the detention and subsequent disappearance of Hernán Peña Catalán and Luis Armando Vergara were the responsibility of State agents, and that this act constitutes a grave violation of human rights.
MemoriaViva[2]
Relatos de los Hechos
Luis Armando Vergara González, 22 years old, married, with one child, a laborer, was detained on October 15, 1973, at approximately 9:15 PM, by four Carabineros from the civil commission of the 13th Precinct, under the command of Lieutenant Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Herrera Mossuto, along with Carabineros Manuel Veloso Ortiz and Francisco Torres Contreras, as well as another unidentified police officer.
The apprehenders did not present any arrest warrant, nor was there any justification for such an operation. When the agents took Luis Vergara, they claimed it was to "ask him a few questions and that they would release him at 8:00 AM the next morning," placing him into a red Chevrolet Pick-Up truck in which they were traveling.
The events occurred a few meters from the home of the victim's parents, Armando Vergara Vilches and Clorinda González Soto, located at Calle Ictino 1127, Población La Faena, Santiago, and were witnessed by them, his siblings Abdón, Gricelda, and Amanda, as well as Julio Veloso Ortiz, the brother of one of the apprehending officers.
The following day, family members went to the 13th Precinct, where a police officer told them that the detainee had been released half an hour earlier. However, they never heard from the victim again, despite inquiring about his whereabouts at various locations and before multiple organizations.
Following the report of these events, an internal summary investigation was initiated within the Carabineros under Commander Godoy, with proceedings carried out, including an inspection of the very truck used in the victim's arrest.
In the summary, the agents denied having participated in the apprehension of the victim, and no conclusion was reached that would allow for the location of Luis Vergara.
Pedro Alejandro Lorenz Herrera Mossuto, the Carabineros Lieutenant in charge of the apprehending group, declared before the Tribunal in charge of the investigation that he went with other police officers to arrest the victim and a certain Peña, by order of a Court (the number of which he claimed not to remember), but that they did not find them.
He ratified his version during confrontations with the witnesses of the detention. Subsequently, he amended his statements, claiming that they went to arrest them because shots had been fired at a soccer field in the same Población La Faena and that they were suspects, but that he did not apprehend them because they could not be found.
Regarding the truck used, he acknowledged that it was used to transport him and his group and that it was a vehicle requisitioned after the Military Coup of September 11, 1973.
Another of the Carabineros participating in the operation, Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres, acknowledged that he went with Lieutenant Herrera and Carabinero Veloso to arrest Luis Vergara González, as he had been pointed out as the author of some shots in Población La Faena, but that the wanted person was not found.
Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz, the other identified participating Carabinero, also declared like the previous two, stating that they were looking for Luis Vergara for being pointed out as the author of some shots at a nearby soccer field, but they did not find him.
Neither the victim nor Hernán Peña Catalán had any connection to an alleged shooting, as claimed by the Carabineros.
The whereabouts of Luis Armando Vergara González were never discovered.
JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS
On November 17, 1974, a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) was filed on behalf of the affected party, case file 1479-74, but with negative reports regarding the existence of his detention from the Ministry of the Interior and the Headquarters of the State of Siege Zone, it was dismissed, and the corresponding court ordered a summary investigation into the disappearance of the subject.
On January 3, 1975, the 11th Criminal Court of Santiago ordered the initiation of the process, which was registered under No. 1035. An order to investigate was issued to the Investigative Police, and witnesses and the accused testified, maintaining the versions mentioned at the beginning of this report.
The Carabineros denied the detention of the disappeared person, and the Military Justice system denied the existence of any case filed against him. On March 2, 1976, the case was temporarily dismissed in accordance with Article 409 No. 1 of the Code of Penal Procedure, which was approved by the Santiago Court of Appeals on May 5, 1976.
On October 28, 1977, a complaint for kidnapping was filed against the accused before the same Tribunal. This case was joined to the previous one, and several proceedings were decreed, all of which were unsuccessful, after which the Tribunal declared itself incompetent, sending the records to the 8th Criminal Court of Santiago due to the location where the events occurred.
In the 8th Criminal Court of Santiago, case file 17207-9 was instructed upon accepting the declined jurisdiction of the previous Tribunal. Some of the previous participants ratified their statements in the same vein, and the requested organizations reported having no information on the disappeared person.
On November 3, 1978, the case was temporarily dismissed in accordance with Article 409 No. 1 of the Code of Penal Procedure, a resolution that was revoked by the Santiago Court of Appeals on March 16, 1979.
Subsequently, a report was requested from the Carabineros, in which it was reported that the detainee logs for the date the events occurred had been incinerated. On November 20, 1979, the Tribunal declared itself incompetent because individuals with military immunity, such as members of the Carabineros, were involved in the events, and the records were sent to the Military Justice system.
The case was settled in the Third Military Prosecutor's Office of Santiago, case file 37-86, which accepted the previously declined jurisdiction. After a long period without processing, it was temporarily dismissed in accordance with Article 409 No. 1 of the Code of Penal Procedure on August 21, 1981. On November 3, 1981, the dismissal was approved by the Court Martial.
On October 30, 1989, at the request of the Military Public Prosecutor's Office, the military judge definitively dismissed the process in accordance with Decree Law 2191 (Amnesty Law). In February 1992, the Court Martial revoked the Military Judge's resolution and instructed that the case return to summary proceedings, ordering the exhumation of the graves specifically designated in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery.
Such a procedure had been carried out in September 1991 by order of the judge of the 22nd Criminal Court of Santiago. As of December 1992, the case is in progress.
Numerous inquiries were made to different organizations, authorities, and institutions without obtaining positive results.
The anthropometric data of Luis Armando Vergara González were attached to case 4449-AF of the 22nd Criminal Court of Santiago, for the crime of illegal inhumation in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery of unidentified persons who died between September and December 1973.
The investigating judge of the case ordered the excavation of 108 graves in September 1991. From there, 125 bodies were exhumed and sent to the Legal Medical Institute. Currently (late 1992), the forensic identification reports are pending.
In preliminary forensic reports, significant matches had been found between one of the exhumed sets of remains and Hernán Peña Catalán, a person detained along with the victim and who disappeared under the same circumstances.
Source: (Corporation Report)
Relatos de los Hechos
A few weeks after the coup, a group of Carabineros took revenge for a fight at a soccer match in Población La Faena. On International Human Rights Day, we tell this story, which is part of the podcast Ñuñoa tiene memoria, which narrates stories of places where crimes of the dictatorship occurred in the commune.
In September 1973, two soccer teams from Población La Faena faced off at the San Carlos field. The match was between neighbors of the neighborhood: on one side was the Unión Victoria team, made up of residents from the west of Calle Ictinos; on the other, the Club Deportivo Cordillera, made up of those who lived to the east.
The ball rolling across the dirt field kept the eight players on each side distracted from the enormous crisis that was being experienced at that time. None of them knew yet that the country's cruel destiny would cross paths with the outcome of that match.
On International Human Rights Day, at El Desconcierto, we remember this story, which is part of the Ñuñoa tiene Memoria podcast by Ñuñoa tu Radio in co-production with the Corporación Estadio Nacional, Memoria Nacional, which tells the stories of places in the commune where there were human rights violations during the dictatorship, but in many cases are not recognized today.
What happens on the field does not stay on the field
There were only a few days left until the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. However, in this sector of the capital, which at that time belonged to Ñuñoa, the concern was how Unión Victoria could overcome the difference with Deportivo Cordillera. The enthusiastic soccer players were young. The youngest was 15 years old, the oldest 22.
A kick or simply a mockery—time has made these details fuzzy—strained the atmosphere, and the insults led to punches. Héctor Vásquez Sepúlveda, a neighbor of La Faena who switched from Unión Victoria to Cordillera, got into a fight with Francisco Contreras Torres, who belonged to his former team and was a Carabinero of the 13th Precinct "Los Guindos" (current 18th Precinct of Ñuñoa).
The intensity of the fight increased. Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz, also a Carabinero from the 13th Precinct, a coworker and teammate of Francisco Contreras, joined the brawl to support him. On the opposing side, Hernán Peña Catalán, Luis Vergara González, José Ramírez Díaz, and Pedro Pérez Godoy got involved.
The San Carlos field was the scene of a pitched battle, although nothing different from what is experienced in hundreds of matches that occur every weekend in the neighborhoods of Santiago.
"What happens on the field stays on the field," some commented after the fight, but that was not the case. "The match was between them, two teams, a normal match. My dad's team was winning and, I don't know, they got annoyed and started throwing punches.
My dad hit him, because he was good with his fists. Then the coup d'état happened and the cop took it upon himself to go look for him. I think that was an abuse of power," recalls José Barahona Ulloa, son of Héctor Vásquez.
Abuse of power The laborer Luis Vergara González was heading to his house in Villa Lautaro a few minutes after 9 PM, the time defined by the Military Junta for the curfew that day, October 15, 1973. A little over a month had passed since the bombing of La Moneda and with it the seizure of power by the Armed Forces.
Luis was a few blocks from his house when a red truck approached him, which until a few weeks earlier had belonged to Miria Contreras Bell, personal secretary to the late President Salvador Allende. But the 22-year-old worker did not know that and only saw a vehicle from which Francisco Contreras, the police officer with whom he had fought at the San Carlos field, got out.
Together with another Carabinero, they subdued him to take him into custody. The car quickly set off: he would not be the only one.
A couple of streets away, in Villa El Duraznal, was the house of Hernán Peña, a 20-year-old driver who had also participated in the match. At his home, they only found his two children and other relatives, so the police decided to "sweep" the neighborhood until they found him. They took him too. The destination was the "Los Guindos" Precinct.
"They were detained in a civilian car, which curiously had been taken, had been confiscated, from the secretary of President Allende. It belonged to 'La Payita'," relates Alejandro Ancalao, doctor of history and head of the Heritage Department of the Municipality of Ñuñoa, an organization that is investigating the victims of the dictatorship in the commune.
"Is 'Beto' there?" Ancalao narrates that two days later the police repeated the routine with Pedro Pérez Godoy, who was a 15-year-old boy, and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, who was a 20-year-old young man, a seventh-grade student who worked as a fair assistant. They were detained on Calle Ictinos.
These two young men were taken to the same place as their teammates from Deportivo Cordillera; however, it was already collapsed due to the number of detainees, so they were transferred to the Quilín Police Station, dependent on the 13th Precinct of Carabineros.
At 1 AM, they were taken out of the police facility and transported in "La Payita's" red truck to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul.
The vehicle stopped before a panoramic view of Santiago under curfew. Carabineros, under the instructions of Lieutenant Pedro Herrera Mossuto, made the amateur soccer players from Población La Faena get out and forced them to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal.
In that place, the officers drew their firearms and shot them. The wounds caused the death of José Ramírez, while the whereabouts of Pedro Pérez remain unknown to this day.
"Is 'Beto' there?" was heard just hours later on October 18, 1973, in front of Héctor Vásquez's house. The young man from Deportivo Cordillera was bathing, and his siblings received the two Carabineros dressed in civilian clothes who were asking for him, Francisco Contreras and Juan Manuel Veloso.
The officers were known to the family because they lived in the neighborhood. It seemed like a simple visit from some neighbors.
When Héctor came out of the bathroom, they asked him to accompany them because he had to give a statement at the precinct regarding the fight at the soccer match. The police took him in a public transport bus, where they coincidentally met the young man's mother, who became worried when she saw the scene.
The Carabineros told her not to worry, that they only needed to take his testimony and he would be back at his house soon. Since that day, "Beto" has been a forcibly disappeared person, just like Luis Vergara and Hernán Peña, of whom there was no more information since their kidnapping.
Héctor Vásquez's girlfriend at the time, Mercedes Ulloa Almonacid, who was expecting a child with him at the time of his kidnapping, recalls: "I found out because his sister told me that he had been lost, that some people had taken him, but they didn't know if they were Carabineros because they weren't dressed as Carabineros; that he had been lost and then two, three, or four days passed (...) His sister started looking for him later.
A week passed and he didn't appear. They had told us that his mother had seen him."
13th Precinct of Carabineros during the dictatorship Historian Alejandro Ancalao explains that the case of the young people from Población La Faena brings to light that the crimes of the dictatorship were against the entire population and not just directed at a political sector. "The objective was not only political people, with political participation, but it was the entire society.
To implant terror, fear, in the entire society, and that was done indiscriminately," he argues.
The head of the Heritage Department of the Municipality of Ñuñoa adds that many of these abuses were carried out thanks to "the henchmen, those who accuse or denounce neighbors due to problems between them, and we end up with cases of forcibly disappeared persons who had absolutely no political relationship, but were simply due to the arbitrariness of public officials."
"Between 1973 and 1990, all the precincts in the country were places of detention. All of them. There is not one that did not have detainees, that did not have forcibly disappeared persons within them, or where there was no torture within one.
All are recognized, and some were destroyed in the final days of the dictatorship to be able to erase some cases," concludes the expert based on official reports.
In 2017, the Supreme Court sentenced former Carabineros Francisco Contreras Torres and Pedro Herrera Mossuto to seven years in prison for the disappearance of Héctor Vásquez. Furthermore, in 2021, the highest court determined 10 years and one day in prison for officer Juan Paredes Rodríguez for the qualified homicide of José Ramírez Díaz and the abduction of the minor Pedro Pérez Godoy; another 10 years and one day for Francisco Contreras Torres for the qualified kidnappings of Hernán Peña and Luis Vergara, the same crime for which it sentenced Pedro Herrera Mossuto to 7 years in prison.
Likewise, Bernardo Pérez Arriagada was sentenced to 7 years in prison for the murder of José Ramírez Díaz.
Héctor Vásquez's son, José Barahona, maintains that "they gave the cop very little" and says, almost 50 years after the event: "I have little hope that he is alive; what I have hope for is that his bones might appear."
Despite the sentences, those close to the victims and neighbors of the precinct know very little information about the case. For example, Mercedes Ulloa states that she knew the other victims besides Héctor Vásquez, her boyfriend at the time. "But I didn't know that the same thing had happened to them, that they had taken them, that they had killed them," she says.
Ñuñoa tiene memoria is a work by Edgar Pfennings de la Vega on the script and research, Felipe Zenteno on the music, and Rodrigo Montanter and Fernando Pereira on the sound.
Other sites in the commune that are remembered in this podcast are the current 18th Precinct "Los Guindos," the old East Campus of the University of Chile, and the Investigative Headquarters at Obispo Orrego No. 241, in addition to the partially recognized Estadio Nacional and José Domingo Cañas.
Source: eldesconcierto.cl, December 11, 2022 Date: 11-12-2022
Relatos de los Hechos
The events occurred in Peñalolén in 1973. The repressors were traveling in a truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President Salvador Allende.
The Supreme Court rejected the appeals for cassation on the merits filed against the sentence that condemned four retired Carabineros officers from the staff of the then 13th Precinct of Los Guindos for their responsibility in the crimes of abduction of a minor, qualified kidnapping, and homicide, illicit acts perpetrated in October 1973 in the current commune of Peñalolén.
In a unanimous ruling (case file 20.937-2018), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, and the lawyer (i) María Cristina Gajardo—confirmed the challenged sentence, issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which sentenced Juan Gregorio Paredes Rodríguez to 10 years and one day in prison as the author of the crime of qualified homicide of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz; plus 3 years and one day in prison for the abduction of the minor Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy.
Meanwhile, Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres must serve a single sentence of 10 years and one day in prison as the author of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Héctor Manuel Peña Catalán and Luis Armando Vergara González; Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Herrera Mossuto must serve a single sentence of 7 years as the author of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Héctor Manuel Peña Catalán and Luis Armando Vergara González; and Bernardo Segundo Pérez Arriagada was sentenced to 7 years in prison as the author of the crime of qualified homicide of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz.
In the investigation of the case, substantiated by the visiting minister Leopoldo Llanos, the following facts were established:
«Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, single, 15 years old, primary school student, without political affiliation, whose address was located at Manzana 10, Sitio 20, Villa Los Guindos of the commune of Ñuñoa; and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, single, 20 years old, assistant to a street market merchant, without political affiliation, illiterate, member of a family of eleven siblings, residing at Manzana 17, Pasaje 152, house 6882, Villa Pedro Lagos of the commune of Peñalolén, on October 17, 1973, were walking along a street near their homes, together with a friend, José Romilio Sepúlveda Merino.
At the moment they reached the intersection of Los Orientales and Ictinos streets, commune of Ñuñoa, current Peñalolén, at approximately 3:00 PM, they were detained, without cause, nor any administrative or judicial order, by officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Carabineros of Ñuñoa (...) The young men were forced to climb into the back of the truck.
The truck where José Ramírez Díaz and Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy remained deprived of liberty was driven from the Police Station to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul, where the march stopped and the detainees were made to get out, who were forced to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal. It was at this site that, a few meters away, they were shot with firearms.»
In the case of Vergara and Peña, it was established that «on October 15, 1973, Luis Armando Vergara González, married, father of one child, 22 years old, laborer, without political affiliation and whose address was located in Villa Lautaro, Manzana E, Sitio 18, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, was apprehended without legal cause in its vicinity, at approximately 9:15 PM, by two Carabineros officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Los Guindos of Ñuñoa, who were traveling in a red truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to the former President of the Republic Salvador Allende.
Immediately, the apprehenders, together with the detainee, went to the home of Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, married, father of two children, 20 years old, who worked as a driver, without any political affiliation.
Although his address was located in Villa El Duraznal, Manzana 7, Sitio 5, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, he could not be found by the police in that place. However, after a search deployed in the vicinity of his home, Peña Catalán was detained and, together with Vergara González, they were taken to the premises of the aforementioned Precinct.»
Source: elciudadano.cl, November 25, 2021 Date: 25-11-2021
Relatos de los Hechos
The accused were held in preventive detention, a measure they must fulfill in one of the Carabineros detention centers determined by the police institution.
Visiting Minister Alejandro Solís Muñoz issued indictments in four cases of forcibly disappeared persons and political executions, whose remains were found illegally inhumed in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery.
The magistrate prosecuted seven retired members of the Carabineros de Chile for the events that occurred in October 1973 and which led to the disappearance of a 15-year-old minor and three adults—between 18 and 22 years old—in the south-eastern area of Santiago (current commune of Peñalolén).
Minister Solís submitted to trial for the abduction of the minor Pedro Pérez Godoy and the qualified kidnapping of José Ramírez Díaz the former members of the police unit Carlos Contreras Guzmán, Bernardo Pérez Arriagada, Juan Paredes Rodríguez, Pedro Herrera Mossuto, and José Tito Alveal.
According to the information that exists so far in the process, “Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, single, born on September 3, 1958, as of October 17, 1973, was 15 years, one month, and 22 days old, primary school student, without political affiliation, whose address was located at Manzana 10, Sitio 20, Villa Los Guindos of the commune of Ñuñoa, and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, single, 20 years old, assistant to a street market merchant, without political affiliation, illiterate, member of a family of eleven siblings, residing at Manzana 17, Pasaje 152, house 6882, Villa Pedro Lagos of the commune of Peñalolén, on October 17, 1973, were walking along a street near their homes, together with a friend, José Romilio Sepúlveda Merino. At the moment they reached the intersection of Los Orientales and Ictinos streets, commune of Ñuñoa, current Peñalolén, at approximately 3:00 PM, they were detained, without cause, nor any administrative or judicial order, by Bernardo Pérez Arriagada and Carlos Contreras Guzmán, officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Carabineros of Ñuñoa, who were traveling in a gray vehicle and were dressed in civilian clothes. They were taken to the premises of said Precinct but could not be entered into it because the cells were full, for which they were transferred to the Quilín Police Station, a unit dependent on the 13th Precinct. However, in said police unit, there is no record of the entry of the victims but there is of the exit of Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, who was removed, together with José Ramírez, from the Station, at 1:00 AM, during the curfew, by Carabinero Bernardo Pérez Arriagada, to a red truck that was parked outside the police facility in which Carabineros Juan Paredes Rodríguez and the aforementioned Contreras Torres were waiting. The latter had received the order to accompany Pérez Arriagada to this procedure from Sub-Officer Major José Tito Alveal, who in turn was under the command of Herrera Mossuto. The young men were forced to climb into the back of the truck. The truck where José Ramírez Díaz and Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy remained deprived of liberty was driven from the Station to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul, where the march stopped and the detainees were made to get out, who were forced to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal. It was at this site that, a few meters away, they were shot with firearms, as a result of which the multiple wounds received caused their death; immediately their bodies were thrown into the torrent of the canal, a maneuver that, according to witness Sepúlveda, had been suggested from the very moment of the detention, which had had no reason to be carried out, Corporal Contreras: 'Let's kill them and throw them into the canal!'. However, the remains of the victims were found illegally inhumed in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery and, due to the lack of accurate scientific methods of the time, could not be correctly identified in the process based in the 22nd Criminal Court; in effect, although some of the recovered remains were attributed to the young Pérez Godoy, finally with the genetic DNA method it was verified that they corresponded to another person and, regarding Ramírez Díaz, the recognition of his remains is pending. Consequently, the death of none of the detainees has been legally and reliably verified; we only know that those deprived of liberty have not made contact with their relatives, nor carried out administrative procedures before State agencies, without registering entries or exits from the country,” says the ruling.
Meanwhile, for the qualified homicides of Hernán Peña Catalán and Luis Vergara González, Minister Alejandro Solís indicted former police officers Juan Veloso Ortiz, Francisco Contreras Torres, and Pedro Herrera Mossuto.
Regarding this case, in the process, the magistrate has managed to determine that: “On October 15, 1973, Luis Armando Vergara González, married, father of one child, was 22 years old, laborer, without political affiliation, and his address was located in Villa Lautaro, Manzana E, Sitio 18, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, upon being detained in its vicinity, at approximately 9:15 PM, since without legal cause, he was apprehended by Carabineros officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Los Guindos of Ñuñoa, Francisco Contreras Torres and Manuel Veloso Ortiz, who were traveling in a red truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President Salvador Allende. Immediately, the apprehenders, together with the detainee, went to the home of Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, married, father of two children, 20 years old, who worked as a driver, without any political affiliation. Although his address was located in Villa El Duraznal, Manzana 7, Sitio 5, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, he could not be found by the police in that place. However, after a search deployed in the vicinity of his home, Peña Catalán was detained and, together with Vergara González, they were taken to the premises of the aforementioned Precinct.”
Both victims were definitively identified by DNA tests carried out at the Legal Medical Service after 2003.
The accused were held in preventive detention, a measure they must fulfill in one of the Carabineros detention centers determined by the police institution.
In addition, Magistrate Solís determined that: “Given the importance of the statements provided by Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres (on October 31, 2003, from fs. 658 to 660 of Volume II Case File 15.607); Luis Arturo Mora Vera (fs. 880 to 881 dated April 21, 2004, Case File 15.607); Bernardo Segundo Pérez Arriagada (fs. 202 to 203 vta. dated September 9, 2003, fs. 878 to 880 dated November 23, 2010, both Case File 9.731); Juan Gregorio Paredes Rodríguez (fs. 294 dated May 17, 2004, and 236 dated January 5, 2004, both of Case File 9.731); Carlos Alfredo Contreras Guzmán (fs. 883 to 885 dated November 24, 2010, fs. 567 dated March 7, 1980, and fs. 557 dated December 10, 1979, all of Case File 9.731); Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Mossuto (fs. 709 dated November 13, 2003, fs. 881 dated November 23, 2010, both of Case File 9.731), Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz (fs. 1059 dated August 18, 2006, of Case File 15.607) and the confrontation proceedings of fs. 283, 284 (without prejudice to 'exhorting them to tell the truth' in a new statement), fs. 269, fs. 304, fs. 305; 306; 329; 727 of Case File 9.731 and 839 of Case File 15.607, leave an authorized photocopy of them and keep them in a Separate Notebook, in custody.”
Likewise, it is ordered, “Without prejudice to what has been resolved, continue the investigation regarding the repressive situation that affected Sergio Alberto Gajardo Hidalgo in the same period in which the illicit acts subject to this resolution were committed.”
Source: elmostrador.cl, December 7, 2012 Date: 07-12-2012
Judicial Case Files[3]
Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, Luis Armando Vergara González
- Leopoldo Llanos
- 20937-2018
- 587-2017
- 9731-15607
- Metropolitana De Santiago
- Bernardo Segundo Perez Arriagada
- Carlos Alfredo Contreras Guzman
- Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres
- Juan Gregorio Paredes Rodriguez
- Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Herrera Mosuto
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=352
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