One of the 7 Chilean officers convicted of the murder of Víctor Jara commits suicide

the brigadier of Army Chilean retired Hernán Carlos Chacón Soto, one of the seven officers sentenced this Monday by the Supreme Court to 25 years in prison for his participation in the torture and murder of the singer-songwriter Victor Jara and Littre Quiroga in 1973, he committed suicide this Tuesday moments before he was to be arrested and transferred to the Puntateuco prison to begin serving his sentence.

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According to the local press, units from the section of human rights of the forces of Security Chileans showed up this morning at his home in the capital’s commune of The Counts to proceed with his arrest, at which time the 86-year-old officer asked to take some medicine and took advantage of the moment to take his own life.

defense of Chacon Soto maintained throughout the long process that the brigadier was in those days of brutal repression after the coup lead by Augusto Pinochet and other high command a simple Army Major that only fulfilled the function of guarding the external perimeter of the Chile Stadiuma closed sports complex where nearly 5,000 people detained from September 11 were overcrowded and in which Jara was assassinated five days later.

However, the ruling made public on Monday claimed he had tactical and intelligence knowledge, “conditions that allowed him to intervene directly in the development of the interrogations” that they did in the changing rooms, “as well as in the previous process classification of detainees”.

According to the argument, he participated in the decision of who was separated to be taken for interrogation and, finally, “The ultimate destination of these, being of all evidence that within the Chile Stadium there was an order imposed by the rigid structure of the existing command”.

“Several testimonies corroborated that he participated in the selection tasks, reporting them to his superiors, for which reason his statements were not credible or credible as soon as he sustained just having guarded the external perimeter of the enclosure, functions that are not consistent with its high degree, nor with the various elements of conviction gathered”, adds the sentence.

“He wore at the time a steyr pistol 9-millimeter caliber, weapon fully consistent with the technical description of the injuries that, according to the forensic records, caused the death of Jara Martinez and Littre Quiroga”he concluded.

Source: Elcomercio

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