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Original article: Crímenes de dictadura no cierran: exoficiales de Carabineros quedan en prisión preventiva por cinco secuestros
In a ruling highlighting that the crimes committed during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship remain unresolved, two former Carabineros officers have been placed in preventive detention for five kidnappings carried out in 1985 against members of the Popular Action Unit Movement (MAPU).
The Judiciary reported that the extraordinary visiting magistrate for human rights violation cases at the Court of Appeals of San Miguel, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, has initiated proceedings and ordered the preventive detention of Héctor Emilio Díaz Anderson and Patricio Augusto Zamora Rodríguez, both captains in Carabineros during the time of the events, for their involvement in five completed counts of qualified kidnapping that occurred from January 13, 1985, in the San Gabriel area of Cajón del Maipo, within the Metropolitan Region.
Based on the findings compiled during the investigation, Minister Cifuentes was able to ascertain the following facts:
1st On January 13, 1985, around 4:00 PM, at the San Gabriel chapel (Cajón del Maipo), the MAPU members L.J.C.C.V., I.E.F.V., C.C.M.R., G.E.O.C., and S.G.R.J. were detained by Carabineros personnel (including Corporal 1st Juan Morales Valenzuela and officers Héctor Chandía Ramírez and Juan Alberto Cayupil Soto, along with Corporal 2nd Luis Eduardo Herrera Machuca) who considered them suspicious based on their behavior.
2nd Immediately, they were taken to the Carabineros post “San Gabriel”.
3rd After 7:00 PM, the five detainees were transferred from that post to the “San José de Maipo” Subcommission, under the command of Captain David Segundo Valenzuela Vidal (deceased).
4th Subsequently, without any formal charges, Captain Valenzuela handed over the five detainees to personnel from the Carabineros’ Directorate of Information and Communications (DICOMCAR). This incident was covered up, falsely recorded in the Guard’s Log as their supposed release at 8:45 PM on the same day.
5th The detainees were then taken by DICOMCAR officers to a facility located at Dieciocho N°237, Santiago, where they remained illegally detained until the night of January 17, 1985. There, they endured repeated interrogations and torture (beatings, strip searches, electric shocks, and threats) by Captains Héctor Emilio Díaz Anderson and Patricio Augusto Zamora Rodríguez, among others.
6th To conceal what transpired between January 13 and the night of January 17, 1985, DICOMCAR personnel, led by Captain Patricio Zamora Rodríguez, transported the detainees to the 18th Police Station “Ñuñoa”. There, they falsely claimed that the detainees had been arrested that very morning in Cajón del Maipo by DICOMCAR officials, who asserted that the detainees had freely and spontaneously admitted to being part of the military apparatus of MAPU-LAUTARO and their involvement in various crimes, and handed over weapons that were allegedly found in their possession, although the origin is unclear since the detainees were not apprehended with weapons or explosives, as confirmed by records from the Carabineros post “San Gabriel” and the “San José de Maipo” Subcommission.
7th During this time, DICOMCAR was commanded by Colonel Luis Duque Raúl Enrique Fontaine Manríquez (deceased), assisted by Colonel Julio Luis Omar Michea Muñoz (deceased) and Major Guillermo Washington González Betancourt (deceased), head of the operations team of Department III.
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