translated from Spanish: Frei Montalva case: Prosecutor recommended reclassifying crime as qualified homicide

The judicial prosecutor, Jorge Norambuena, who informs the Santiago Court of Appeals of the trial ruling for the crime of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva recommended reclassifying the crime and considering it a qualified homicide. Norambuena estimates that the 6 sentenced by Judge Alejandro Madrid should have more sentences of 20 years in prison. It should be noted that the defences filed four appeals and six appeals, which the prosecutor believes should be dismissed. According to what La Tercera stated, the report recommends that “repeal the upward sentence, as soon as it qualifies the facts, as constituting a crime of simple homicide and distinguishes the participation of the sentenced, in perpetrators, accomplices and cover-ups, declaring instead, that they all have a stake as mediate perpetrators, in the crime of qualified homicide.” Another was killed by poison and with known premeditation, the former President of the Republic Eduardo Frei Montalva, perpetrated at the Santa María Clinic in the city of Santiago, on January 22, 1982, condemning each and every one of those sentenced – except for the fall the custodial sentence of 20 years of major prison to its maximum extent, with the corresponding legal ancillary,” adds the prosecutor. In addition, Norambuena in the document states that “it was an intelligence operation planned by several active subjects, and intended to kill a former President of the Republic, which involved not only confidentiality, but also assignment of roles and previous concert to commit the crime, so it is not possible to make any distinction between the sentenced.” Finally, he summarized that “the merit of the evidence and the facts attheend of the ruling, it is possible to establish that it was an intelligence operation ordered from the high authority of the de facto regime, and led by the CNI agents , an illicit act which was the ideal instrument used to perpetrate the crime against humanity”

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