Roberto Adan Riquelme Aviles
Estudiante — 20 years old.
Background
Roberto Adan Riquelme Aviles
Estudiante — 20 years old.
Case summary
Roberto Adán Riquelme Avilés was a 20-year-old student with no political affiliation who was executed by State agents on October 10, 1973. After being detained by Carabineros in Conchalí and beaten at a police station, his body was found with gunshot wounds in the Quilicura sector alongside those of two other young men.
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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
BRAVO VEGA, ALEJANDRO RAMIRO: 21 years old, single, worker, victim of political execution on October 10, 1973, in Santiago.
RIQUELME AVILES, ROBERTO ADAN: 20 years old, single, student, victim of political execution on October 10, 1973, in Santiago.
ULLOA CARRILLO, JUAN CARLOS: 20 years old, single, merchant, victim of political execution on October 10, 1973, in Santiago.
All of them died that day between 7:00 and 9:30 hours, in the area of the Logoza alley, Quilicura, due to gunshot wounds to the cranium, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute.
According to the account of a surviving witness, they lived in the Quinta Bella neighborhood, in the El Salto sector of the Conchalí commune. During an operation carried out by carabineros and military personnel in said neighborhood, Alejandro Bravo was detained and taken to the local Carabineros station, where his hair was shaved off before he was released.
Upon his release, and fearing he would be detained again, he took refuge with his friends Roberto Riquelme and Juan Ulloa in a house in the same sector. They were detained there by Carabineros and taken to a police unit located at El Salto and Américo Vespucio.
According to statements from eyewitnesses, they were repeatedly beaten at said police unit and were subsequently separated from the rest of the detainees and taken to an unknown destination.
Later, their bodies were found by their relatives at the Legal Medical Institute.
Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Alejandro Ramiro Bravo Vega, Roberto Adán Riquelme Avilés, and Juan Carlos Ulloa Carrillo were executed by State agents while they were deprived of their liberty. For this reason, it declared them victims of human rights violations.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=2732