Two carabineros accused of torture in the Peñalolén police station post 18-O

10/08/2020 Chile



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The Thirteenth Guarantee Court of Santiago decreed preventive detention for two carabineros charged with the crime of torture and total house arrest for a third for unlawful coercion, in events that occurred in the framework of the protests of the social outbreak last year.

The Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office formalized the three uniformed men for their alleged responsibility in the harassment committed against four minors and two adults in the 43rd Police Station of Peñalolén, between the night of October 20, 2019 and the early morning of the next day.

At the hearing, the body showed audiovisual evidence in court, security cameras from the barracks, in which police beating detainees with sticks, first in a corridor, where the victims stood for more than an hour and faced a wall with their hands raised while they were mistreated.

In those facts one of the minors received a blow to the face and was left bleeding.

In images from another camera it is seen that inside a dungeon from the police station a official throws deterrent chemicals right in the face of one of the arrested adults.

“Were beaten and punished, as determined by the court, by these officials, with different types of blows inside the cells, and also using chemical elements, used as deterrents “, stated the prosecutor Miguel Ángel Orellana.

The Eastern Prosecutor’s Office reported after the hearing that the Guarantee Court accepted the request for preventive detention for two of the police accused of torture, considering them a “danger to the security of the State”, identified as Sebastián González and Juan Pablo Leiva.

This was determined by the judge Natacha Ruz at the hearing, when verifying that “they were inside a police station” when the events occurred and “Carabineros, as an agent of the State, have to respect human rights, therefore, the court agrees that the freedom of both defendants constitutes a danger to the security of the State. “

While the third, identified as Carlos Fuenzalida, accused of illegitimate constraints, was left with total house arrest, national roots and a ban on approaching the victims.

“The essential thing is that it is investigated, and that justice is done,” he reacted Sergio Micco, director of the National Institute of Human Rights, who pointed out that “it is doubly serious” that there are minors among those who are abused.

“On the other hand, I insist, there are acts that are repeated in time and space; The Institute has filed more than 400 complaints for torture or unlawful coercion, and then as an Institute, I insist, we are completely dismayed“, he also stated.

INTERIOR HIGHLIGHTS THAT THE CASE ARISED BY INTERNAL INVESTIGATION

The Minister of the Interior, Victor Perez, assured that this case arose as a result of an internal investigation of the police: “The origin of the case is the product of an investigation that Carabineros makes available to the Prosecutor’s Office the antecedentyes, “he said.

“It is important that the institution itself has carried out an internal investigation and made the corresponding complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” the Mayor Carolina Leitao.

He specified that “although the original complaint that there had been ‘crucified’ people was discarded “A situation that was accused during the social outbreak, “it is an equally serious fact that they have incurred in human rights violations, which we hope that if ratified, the maximum rigor of the law will be applied and the corresponding responsibilities will be pursued.”



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