Eduardo Vielma Luengo, a construction worker, was murdered on September 4, 1986, at Avenida Ossa and Calle Cerro Negro during a national day of protest on that date. Recently, the Supreme Court convicted five Carabineros, now retired, as the perpetrator and accessories to this homicide.

The uniformed officers belonged to the 10th Precinct of La Cisterna, in the Metropolitan Region, and their sentences were established as follows: Juan Tapia Pacheco received 8 years in prison as the perpetrator of the crime; Jorge Escobar Cantillana and Carlos Ruiz Medrano received 541 days in prison, with the benefit of conditional remission, for their responsibility as accessories; and Víctor Geraldino González and Luis Zapata Torres received 100 days in prison for the same degree of participation.

The country's highest judicial body, while not confirming the sentence for qualified homicide previously established by the San Miguel Court of Appeals, determined: "That, as noted from the reading of the twenty-first finding of the appealed judgment, the facts established in relation to the crime of simple homicide of the victim Eduardo German Vielma Luengo have the character of a crime against humanity, in accordance with the principles and norms that inform International Humanitarian Law."

The communication of the final ruling incorporates the account of the facts that clarifies the manner in which such a crime occurred.

" 1st That on September 4, 1986, around 9:00 PM, within the framework of a day of popular demonstrations to commemorate another year since the election of Salvador Allende Gossens as President of the Republic, Eduardo Germán Vielma Luengo left his home, located at Calle Cerro Negro No. 8.991 in the commune of La Cisterna, accompanied by Leonel Patricio Constanzo Sepúlveda and the child Néstor Antonio Medina Johns, to buy cigarettes at a store located in the vicinity.

2nd That, moments later, while Eduardo Vielma Luengo was walking with the aforementioned persons along Calle Cerro Negro, upon reaching Avenida Ossa, he was intercepted by police officers assigned to the 10th Precinct of the Carabineros of La Cisterna, who were traveling in an institution bus, specifically Lieutenant Carlos Raúl Ruiz Medrano and Carabineros Juan Avenido Tapia Pacheco, Jorge Aníbal Escobar Cantillana, Víctor Manuel Geraldino González, and Luis Fabián Zapata Torres.

3rd That, immediately thereafter, while Eduardo Vielma Luengo was in front of the property at Avenida Ossa No. 1.211, meters to the west of the aforementioned intersection, Juan Tapia Pacheco fired at him from behind, the projectile penetrating the thoracic cavity, after which it passed through the right lung, causing a hemothorax and acute anemia, and subsequently, death.

4th That, instead of reporting the circumstances of the commission of the aforementioned crime, the referred police officers carried out a series of maneuvers to conceal them, both from the rest of the police officers who accompanied them and from the police and judicial authorities."

Source: resumen.cl, December 4, 2021