translated from Spanish: Pre-trial detention for six carabinieri charged with torture and sexual abuse against university students

The Seventh Guarantee Court decreed the precautionary measure of pre-trial detention for six Carabineros officials, charged with the torture offences against Josué Maureira, 21, a medical student, who reported the assaults and the uniforms of the 51st police station of Pedro Aguirre Cerda.In addition two of the detainees were formalized for the crime of aggravated sexual abuse, for the alleged use of a blunt element to sexually abuse the young man. Meanwhile, a period of 120 days of investigation was established. The victim is a student from the Catholic University, who was arrested in October of this year, and then was beaten and abused inside that police station in Pedro Aguirre Cerda.The National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), which filed a complaint for this case He reported that the event occurred on “21 October last, while moving through the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, he entered a supermarket to deliver first aid to people inside while incidents were taking place in the compound. In the confusion of the facts, Carabineros violently stopped him, sending him cane blows, fists and kicks.” In addition, the INDH added that “the product of the beating, the young man lost consciousness, so he was transferred to the police station. After regaining consciousness, he was informed that he was arrested for the crime of Robbery in Uninhabited Place. Although he was already in detention, he was beaten and insulted for his homosexual status. He was even stripped naked and sexually abused in the context of torture he was suffering.”

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