Former Punta Peuco inmate who was pardoned by Piñera in July died

Colonel (R) of the FACh, Víctor Mattig Guzmán, convicted of human rights violations who was serving a sentence in Punta Peuco and who was pardoned on July 31 by President Sebastián Piñera, died during the early hours of today at the Hospital of the FACh, suffering from a terminal illness.

The former uniformed man was serving a 10-year prison sentence in the Punta Peuco Prison since 2017, under the charge of qualified kidnapping, for the arrest, illegitimate transfer to the Air Warfare Academy and subsequent disappearance of the head of the Single Central of Workers, José Luis Baeza.

After being hospitalized urgently for a terminal condition, the ex-aviator was one of the two inmates of the prison who received the pardon, along with Raúl Rojas Nieto, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for the Caravana de la Muerte case. .

After Mattig’s death, the lawyer representing the inmates of the prison, Raúl Meza, pointed out that the ex-uniformed man “is the first inmate from Punta Peuco to die in freedom due to the granting of the presidential pardon, however, during this government , 27 inmates who are serving a sentence for human rights reasons have been denied pardon by Pdte Piñera ”.

According to the lawyer, the situation “confirms the need for this government to give extreme urgency to the processing of the humanitarian law that is currently being processed in Parliament.”