translated from Spanish: Death Caravan: Judicial Prosecutor Asks Cheyre should be convicted as co-author of murder

In November last year the minister on visit Mario Carroza sentenced Juan Emilio Cheyre to the sentence of 3 years and a day of probation for the crime of cover-up of the qualified homicide, in the context of the case “Caravana de la Muerte”.
However, the high court must review the funds of the appeals filed in this case, in which a report of the judicial prosecutor Jorge Norambuena will be filed, as reported by La Tercera.
In the document, Norambuena noted that for him, the former commander-in-chief of the Army should be convicted as co-author of the 15 extrajudicial shootings committed by Sergio Arellano Stark, and not as an accomplice.
Although the report is not binding, if it were upheld by the Court of Appeal, it would imply that Cheyre could receive an effective jail term.
Norambuena states that it does not share “what the judgment points out, with regard to the participation of Mario Vargas Migueles, Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa, Guillermo Raby Arancibia, Hernán Valdebenito and Luis Araos Flores, regarding whom he has determined participation of cover-ups of qualified homicides, requalifying the facts relating to their participation and accepting what was sustained by the defences, considering that all of them are co-authors, as indicated above.”
On the former head of the Army, the judicial prosecutor stated that “his participation, as co-author, is established in each of the wrongdoings of this process, because as the ruling in the thirty-ninth and fortyth recital points out, at the time when the facts of this case, served as an assistant to the Commander of the Arica Regiment of La Serena, Ariosto Lapostol, being considered mediated author of the killings in sentencing, and although he had no command of units, if he had the need for his work to know the purpose of the entourage that came to the city.”
In the same vein, it is argued that Cheyre “did not cease to participate in each of the meetings held by Lapostol, to select the prisoners who would be executed”.
It should be remembered that the former commander-in-chief of the Army was investigated along with 8 other ex-uniformed people for the murder of 15 people, which occurred in October 1973, during the passage of the “Death Caravan” by the city of La Serena.



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