translated from Spanish: Frei Montalva: ruling says that “omission” of Assistant Secretary Castle is insufficient to attribute criminal responsibility

this afternoon the judge, Alejandro Madrid, determined that the former President Eduardo Frei Montalva was assassinated and sentenced to sei s people. In its judgment, the judge ruled on the Undersecretary of health care networks, Luis Castillo, although it committed an omission, insufficient evidence to attribute criminal responsibility. Precise document “in relation to the statements provided by doctor Luis Castillo Fuenzalida, who marks in circumstances which served as director of the UC health network, to be informed by Dr. Sergio González, anatomical pathologist of that” University, about the existence of microscopic slide samples of various organs of the former President of the Republic don Eduardo Frei Montalva, such as heart, liver, esophagus, pancreas, lung, kidney, such as addition, 15 inclusions in EPON material with samples of kidney, lung and liver, which would be kept stored, according to Dr. González in units of the Department of pathological anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of the University concerned”. On the other hand, also in their statements explained “the information received was confidential and could only be delivered to family members if they request formally or legally” which was confirmed in the course of the investigation. On the case of the Undersecretary, whose performance in the process has been challenged by the DC, because that was not reported to the family immediately of the existence of the samples, the ruling poses that “this omission is not sufficient to attribute to the optional formerly named any criminal responsibility in the researched fact, already that his behavior not understood within any budget that designates the article 17 of the criminal code as constitutive of cover-up”.



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