Third detainee arrested for murder of carabinera was benefited with general pardon law approved by Congress under Piñera government

The third detainee for the murder of Carabineros Second Sergeant Rita Olivares, identified as Luis Vicente Martínez-Conde Riesco, received a commutative general pardon due to Covid-19 in the country thanks to Law No. 21,228, approved in 2020 by the National Congress.
Specifically, Martínez-Conde Riesco had received the commutative pardon for the health emergency in April 2020 during the government of Sebastián Piñera, which resulted in the fulfillment of the sentence he had of 5 years and one day for the crime of robbery with intimidation and violence in the modality of night house arrest.
In this regard, the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Carolina Tohá, told TVN that “about the person benefited with a pardon, many times in our security debates, very easily, we put ourselves on the sidewalk of the front to shoot. And I think this time is not the time to do that.”
“If we want to discuss pardons, the consequences they may have, the cases of people reoffending, let’s have a serious discussion, because today it would not contribute anything for us at La Moneda to turn the discussion around and start the other way. Let’s have a more in-depth discussion about pardons and focus today on what lies ahead, which is to prosecute those responsible for this crime and agree on an agenda that strengthens our instruments to prosecute organized crime in general,” the Secretary of State added.
The benefit to which Luis Vicente Martínez accessed was the general pardon for Covid-19, which allowed the freedom of all those low-danger prisoners who were close to serving their sentence. On that occasion, the law, approved by Congress, was approved with 92 votes in favor, 14 against and 3 abstentions, and was intended to decongest prisons to prevent them from becoming sources of contagion.

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