Case File 2.182-98: “Colombo Case” Episode, aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo

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That the defendant Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar in his investigative statements on page 3956 maintains that he was assigned to the DINA at the end of 1973, from the Carabineros Non-Commissioned Officers School, mentioning among other colleagues also assigned, Juan Salazar Gatica, Nelson Iturriaga Cortez, Héctor Aravena Lira, Juan Guzmán, José Muñoz Leal, and many others; they all traveled by bus to Tejas Verdes where they were received by Colonel Manuel Contreras, who instructed them to stop wearing uniforms and that they would join an intelligence service to combat subversion and political parties opposed to the Military Government. They were then taken to Rocas de Santo Domingo for two weeks, receiving instruction on searching for information of a subversive nature, courses given by Contreras, which he recalls were also attended by Ciro Torré, Miguel Hernández, and Gerardo Godoy. Afterward, they were transferred to Santiago and, after a couple of days, to the basement of the Plaza de la Constitución, and then to Londres 38, under the command of Marcelo Moren, and his superior was Hernández Oyarzo along with Ciro Torré. The mission was to search for information on political parties and subversives, to know who belonged to them, in order to detain them; this work was done in pairs, he with Flores Vergara. The orders at that time were verbal. He recalls among the chiefs: Gerardo Godoy, Miguel Krassnoff, Ricardo Lawrence Mires; Osvaldo Romo Mena and "El Troglo" Zapata were also there. There were detainees, about eight men and women on average, at the entrance of the first-floor hall, tied up and blindfolded, some sitting on the floor, others on chairs. The detainees were brought in by Romo and "El Troglo" in Pesquera Arauco-type pickup trucks, received by the guard, where he remembers Duarte Gallegos; he does not recall any entry log, nor the names or nicknames of the detainees. He was at Londres until mid-1974 because the barracks became inadequate. Afterward, a group was formed by Lieutenant Hernández, with whom they went to the barracks at Irán con Los Plátanos, a two-story building with a basement. The lieutenant received orders from Urrich, who had an office at Villa Grimaldi, and was in turn subordinate to Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, the supreme chief of the Brigada Purén. While at Irán, his work was carried out throughout the Metropolitan region, and the task was the same: the search for information on political parties and subversion, among them the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, and extreme left-wing groups such as the MIR. When they had information regarding a person, they would hand it over to Lieutenant Hernández, who in turn would hand it to his superiors, who would order the detention and the operational groups in charge of it, who would take them to Irán or Villa Grimaldi. He was also at José Domingo Cañas. He adds that the individuals in charge of the interrogations were Altez España, Pedro Alfaro, Rivas Díaz, and Juan Salazar Gatica on the second floor, but he is certain that they were subjected to duress, although he never saw them, and electric shocks were applied. The statements were taken by hand by the interrogators and passed on to Hernández, who in turn reported to Urrich and Iturriaga, who decided what was to be done with the detainees. Those who were released went to Cuatro Álamos; sometimes it was his turn to transport them. He is unaware of what happened to those who remained in detention, but he states that on one occasion, Hernández ordered him to go to the Colina sector with four living detainees, in the company of Juan Jiménez, who was an Army official, and the driver of the truck, Armando Ganga, and he does not remember the other person who was there. The order was to take them to Colina to be transferred by helicopter. Upon arriving at the site, Hernández ordered him to stay away and to prevent anyone from approaching. He saw the helicopter arrive, the detainees were loaded onto it, and the aircraft took off. Afterward, Hernández and the others returned to the truck, without the detainees, and returned to Irán con Los Plátanos. On that occasion, it involved only men, about 30 years old, and he does not know their names; this occurred at the end of 1974, at the end of the operation of the Irán con Los Plátanos barracks. He adds that there must have been more transfers of this type. He adds that the DINA was directed by Manuel Contreras; that at Londres 38 he provided services from the end of 1973 until August or September 1974, when he was assigned to Irán con Los Plátanos.

Source: Judiciary, April 10, 2015