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The Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santiago ratified ruling first instance and sentenced the former agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, Rolf Wenderoth Well, Manuel Carevic Cubillos already Juvenal Pineapple, to 15 years in prison for their participation as authors ofe kidnapping of 11 former leaders of the Socialist Party in 1975.
The Chamber confirmed the ruling issued in 2018, but applying, in some of the cases, the mitigation of irreproachable previous conduct, which allowed the sentences to be reduced to some of the accused.
The ruling also confirms the dismissals of Manuel Contreras, Marcelo Moren Brito, Basclay zapata, Osvaldo romo, Gerardo Urrich, Jorge Germán Barriga, Eugenio Fieldhouse and Jorge Madariaga –all were processed in the cause for their participation in the events – for being deceased.
Nelson Caucoto, one of the plaintiffs in the case, stated that he “long-standing judicial investigation begins to conclude. Unfortunately without finding the bodies of the victims, which shows the brutal efficacy of the enforced disappearance used by the DINA. This criminal process shows the harshest face of the extermination policy developed by the dictatorship. “
“The important thing is that the Court of Appeals did not apply the half prescription, which allowed the sentences of Minister Miguel Vásquez to be maintained in general terms“Despite this, he added:”We have doubts about the reduction of sentences after accepting the mitigating effect of the above irreproachable conduct, we believe that it did not proceed “.
According to the investigation, it was the kidnapping with disappearance of eleven young socialist militants, whose ages fluctuated between 24 and 39 years.
The events would have occurred between March and December 1975, dates on which it was brutally repressed by the DINA to the clandestine leadership of the PS, post-coup.
The leadership of the PS was composed of Exequiel Ponce Vicencio, Carlos Lorca Tobar, who was a deputy in office on the date of his disappearance; Ricardo Lagos Salinas, Adolfo Mancilla Ramirez and Jaime López Arellano, stops at your links Michelle Peña Herreros, Mireya Rodríguez Díaz, Modest Carolina Wiff Sepúlveda, Rosa Solíz Poveda, Sara Donoso Palacios, and the former director of the State Railways Alfredo Rojas Castañeda.
It should be noted that for this case, in the development of the research, statement was taken a hundred former members of the community, including former president Michelle Bachelet, who was detained in Villa Grimaldi.
