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Australian justice declared extraditable to the former DINA agent and secretary of Manuel Contreras, Adriana Rivas, who is accused of the disappearance of seven people during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Let us remember that last September the Judge Phillip Stewart, of the Local Court of the state of New South Wales, had decided to postpone the determination on the possible extradition to Chile.
Finally, until this Thursday (local time) the magistrate declared the extradition of Adriana Rivas admissible, as confirmed by sources from Radio Bío Bío.
However, your return could be delayed because your defense can appeal the decision and go to Superior Court.
The Supreme Court issued an extradition order against Rivas in 2014 for his participation in the qualified kidnapping (disappearance) of Víctor Rivas, secretary general of the Communist Party and disappeared in 1977 along with six other members of the formation, when she was an agent of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA), the political police of the Pinochet regime.
The “Chani”
The “Chani”, as it was known, it became the right arm of the director of the DINA, Manuel Contreras, one of the main criminals of the dictatorship and who died while serving more than 400 years in prison.
Adriana Rivas has lived in Australia for over three decades, where she has worked babysitting and cleaning houses.
In 2006 she traveled to Chile to visit family and was arrested, although she fled again to Australia while on probation.
The former DINA agent offered an interview in 2013 to the Australian network SBS in which she denied the accusations against her but defended the use of torture in Chile.
“Torture has existed for as long as I can remember in Chile. It always existed. Everybody knew that they had to do that and break people in some way, “he said then.
The testimonies of the tortured ones highlight that Adriana Rivas was a ruthless person in the interrogations that were carried out in the Simón Bolívar barracks, where the so-called Lautaro Brigade of the DINA operated, to which she belonged.
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