Minister Jorge Zepeda issued an indictment in the investigation into the aggravated kidnapping of Pedro Juan Merino Molina, which occurred beginning on September 14, 1974, in the city of Coronel, Bio Bio region.

The magistrate indicted Sergio Rigoberto Aplazaba Rojas, Manuel Rioseco Paredes, Orlando José Manzo Durán, Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Paul Schäfer Schneider, Fernando Gómez Segovia, and Gerd Seewald Lefevre as responsible for the aforementioned crime.

The magistrate determined that the victim: “after being detained by State agents in the early hours of September 14, 1974, at the home he occupied in the Yobilo Dos neighborhood, Calle Aconcagua No. 817, in the city of Coronel, was taken to the ‘Lo Rojas’ Carabineros station and immediately transported to Parral, specifically to the clandestine detention center of the former Colonia Dignidad, where there is a record of the interrogations conducted by German colonists acting alongside State agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate, DINA; with whom the former cooperated in the persecution, deprivation of liberty, and elimination of civilians for political or ideological reasons; said agents proceeded to keep the aforementioned victim deprived of liberty, causing him to be forcibly disappeared to this day.”

Source: Friday, July 17, 2009 La Nacion