Roberto Romualdo Romero Reyes
Empleado Universidad de Chile — 29 years old.
Background
Roberto Romualdo Romero Reyes
Empleado Universidad de Chile — 29 years old.
Case summary
Roberto Romualdo Romero Reyes, a 29-year-old employee of the Universidad de Chile, was killed by State agents on August 12, 1983. He died after receiving a fatal gunshot wound from Carabineros during the repression of a demonstration in Maipú, in an act classified as a human rights violation due to the excessive use of force.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
Roberto Romualdo ROMERO REYES, 29 years old, worked as an employee at the Faculty of Agronomy of the Universidad de Chile.
During the night of the 12th, Carabineros intervened to disperse demonstrations in Maipú. According to testimonies known to the Commission, the uniformed officers fired their service weapons, mortally wounding him. The officers who were at the scene acknowledged their presence and the fact that they had fired shots into the air.
This Commission is convinced that Roberto Romero was a victim of human rights violations for which agents of the State, who made excessive use of force, are responsible.
Judicial Case Files[2]
Episodio Operación Colombo. Modesto Espinoza Pozo y Roberto Aranda Romero
- Hernan Crisosto
- 12192-2015
- 2182-98
- 2229-2014
- Metropolitana De Santiago
- Cuatro Alamos
- Alejandro Astudillo Adonis
- Cesar Manriquez Bravo
- Demostenes Cardenas Saavedra
- Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko
- Orlando Manzo Duran
- Pedro Espinoza Bravo
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=878
- 2