Santiago de Chile, 21 Mar The Santiago Court of Appeals this Monday raised prison sentences against ten Chilean soldiers who were retired for burning two young people alive in 1986, in one of the most atrocious episodes of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), known as the “Quemados Case”. The court rectified the sentence handed down in the first instance in 2019, rejecting “the res judicada exception in respect of one of those convicted” and increasing the penalties for the “qualified homicide” of photographer Rodrigo Rojas de Negri and the “frustrated homicide” of student Carmen Gloria Quintana to 20 years, explained the Power of Attorney Judicial. The court unanimously sentenced military personnel Julio Castañer González, Iván Figueroa Canobra, Nelson Medina Gálvez and Pedro Fernández Dittus to 20 years in prison for being the perpetrators of the crimes. Meanwhile, Leonardo Riquelme Alarcón, Walter Lara Gutiérrez, Juan Ramón González Carrasco and Pedro Franco Rivas were sentenced to 10 years in prison for their responsibility as accomplices, while Francisco Vasquez Vergara and René Muñoz Bruce will have to serve three years as cover-ups. The victims were arrested by a military patrol on 2 July 1986 during a day of protest against the military dictatorship and subsequently beaten, sprayed with gasoline and burned alive. The convicts threw the victims into a ditch next to a country road, outside Santiago, in the commune of Quilicura. Rojas de Negri died hours after the attack, but Quintana, aged just 17, managed to save herself despite severe burns and injuries. The “Quemados Case”, one of the most iconic, prompted protests against the dictatorship at the national level and abroad, mainly in the United States, where the murdered photographer resided. According to official figures, during the Pinochet regime nearly 3,200 Chileans died at the hands of agents of the State, of whom 1,192 are still listed as missing detainees, while another 33,000 were tortured and imprisoned for political reasons. CHIEF mmm/pnm/lll
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