Case File 10.854: "Dagoberto Cárcamo Navarro and others, Homicide on the road to Pelluco" episode

5) José Braulio Olavarría Bravo, in an extrajudicial statement provided to the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) on pages 331 to 332, noted that in October 1973, he was assigned to the Antonio Varas police station, which had a staff of about six men, with Second Sergeant Ottmardo Ríos Chávez as the station chief.

He recalled that before September 1973, a carabinero from this unit named Rubén Rosas Schmauk was struck with a bag of stones while walking to his home; the assault was carried out by a young neighbor with the surname Mansilla, who was known as a boxer.

No procedure was taken on that occasion. Later, he remembers hearing a broadcast on the radio announcing the death of six people on the road to the Pelluco sector, though he had no further information.

He adds that his work consisted of ensuring the safety of the population and the authorities by performing intelligence and investigative work; he also carried out arrest warrants issued by the military prosecutor's office, and it was not his duty to witness interrogations of detained persons.

In his statement on pages 354 to 357, he ratifies his declaration, adding that the young Mansilla he mentioned was a shoemaker and had his business in his home located on Calle Castro. He adds that in October 1973, he was assigned to perform duties in the Military Intelligence Service (SIM), under the command of Carabineros Major Caupolicán Arcos Albarracín, operating from offices located on the second floor of the Intendencia of that time, the current provincial government building.

At that time, they worked in civilian clothes and carried weapons; he carried a revolver that he owned. The service was composed of various institutions from the armed forces and the investigative police: Santiago Yáñez (Army), Francisco Mayer (FACH), Jorge Vargas Garrido (Carabineros), Tomás Kappes Alvarado (Army), Benjamín Villablanca Romero (Carabineros), Luis Veas Abarca (Carabineros), Roberto Díaz Moya (Investigative Police), Lieutenant Enberg (FACH), Corporal Marchant (FACH), Corporal Vera (Navy), Sergeant Chávez (Army), and Corporals Vera and Lagos Jorquera, all from the FACH.

He reiterates that his work consisted of ensuring the safety of the population and the authorities, performing intelligence and investigative work. He points out that it was not his duty to interrogate or witness interrogations of detained persons; the person who interrogated was the prosecutor at the facility where the prosecutor's office operated, which at that time was in the Intendencia and where the Treasury currently operates.

8) Lautaro José Onofre Contreras Aguilera, in an extrajudicial statement provided to the Investigative Police on pages 380 to 382, indicates that in March 1974, he was assigned to the Second Police Station of Puerto Montt and was immediately tasked with taking charge of some administrative commissions and was attached to the Intendencia, specifically to the CAJSI under the command of Army Captain Eugenio Covarrubias, working with about twelve people, including two or three individuals attached from each institution.

Regarding the operational work of the CAJSI, it consisted of carrying out arrest warrants issued by the military prosecutor's office as well as conducting operations in different parts of the city where, if people were detained, they were placed at the disposal of the same military prosecutor's office.

He adds that, effectively, interviews and interrogations were carried out in the CAJSI offices as well as in the Investigative Police barracks, which were preferably conducted by a specific team composed of non-commissioned officers from the institutions.

He adds that he learned of the event that occurred on the road to Pelluco through comments within the police unit, where a carabineros patrol had allegedly clashed with a group of people, with Lieutenant Adolfo Navarro Palma in charge of the carabineros personnel.

In his statement on pages 398 to 400, he ratifies his police statement, rectifying the part where he indicates that the lieutenant in charge was Lieutenant Adolfo Navarro, arguing that he was only part of the unit but not in command.

At the Intendencia, he worked with approximately twelve people, with two or three people attached from each institution. Regarding the function of the CAJSI in providing support to the Military Prosecutor's Office in wartime and its operational work, it consisted of carrying out investigation orders issued by them and arrest warrants also issued by the Military Prosecutor's Office.

Operations were also carried out in various parts of the city where, in the event of arrests, the individuals were placed at the disposal of the same prosecutor's office, which would then decide regarding their freedom.

Fundamentally, these arrests were related to arms control, as they claimed to know of the existence of many unregistered weapons, shotguns, and revolvers. He stresses that both in the CAJSI offices at the Intendencia and in the Investigative Police barracks, interviews and interrogations were carried out, which were preferably conducted by a specific team composed of non-commissioned officers from the institutions, such as non-commissioned officer Kappes, detective Díaz, non-commissioned officer Olavarría of the Carabineros, and the then-corporal Vargas, also of the Carabineros.

They interrogated the people at the police barracks and then sent the respective record with the statement to the prosecutor's office. He exclaimed that he did not know the methods they used to interrogate, as he never witnessed an interrogation because his work was office-based on the second floor of the Intendencia.

He added that the events investigated in this case occurred prior to his arrival at the Second Carabineros Station of Puerto Montt.

Source: Judiciary, October 28, 2017