Convictions raised for murders and kidnappings of Víctor Jara and Littré Quiroga

The Court of Appeals of Santiago issued a second instance sentence against seven retired members of the Army for their responsibility in the crimes of qualified kidnapping and qualified homicide of the singer-songwriter Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez and the director of prisons, to date, Littré Abraham Quiroga Carvajal, illicit perpetrated in September 1973, in Santiago. the Eighth Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santiago – composed of Minister Alejandro Rivera and Ministers Gloria Solís and Ana María Osorio – sentenced Raúl Jofré González, Edwin Dimter Bianchi, Nelson Haase Mazzei, Ernesto Bethke Wulf, Juan Jara Quintana and Hernán Chacón Soto to sentences of 15 years and one day, as perpetrators of the murders, and 10 years and one day in prison, as perpetrators of the crime of qualified kidnapping of both victims. Meanwhile, former officer Rolando Melo Silva must purge 5 years and one day in prison, as a cover-up of the homicides, and 3 years and a day in prison as a cover-up of the kidnappings. The high court raised the sentence to those convicted of the crime of simple kidnapping by reclassifying the conduct to qualified kidnapping taking into account the seriousness of the facts that were victims and the ill-treatment to which they were subjected during their imprisonment in the then Estadio Chile.In the civil aspect, the sentence that condemned the Treasury to pay compensation to the relatives of the victims was maintained.

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