The Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice sentenced Hugo César Acevedo, Raúl Farías, Víctor Rolando Caro and Jorge Enrique Rivas to 15 years and one day in prison as perpetrators of the crime, qualified as homicide; and Luis Arturo Sanhueza to 10 years and one day in prison.
On April 18th, 1989, the accused, who were members of the National Information Center (CNI, in Spanish) of the Augusto Pinochet regime, ambushed and shot Iván Gustavo Palacios and Eric Enrique Rodríguez on the San Pablo Street, in the Quinta Normal commune in the country’s capital.
Witnesses later stated that the CNI agents carried out a series of maneuvers at the site with the aim of simulating a confrontation with the victims, whom they accused of preparing to place explosive devices.
The Court previously sentenced six other CNI agents to 15 years in prison for murder and torture in July 1985.
The CNI was created immediately after the dissolution of the Directorate of National Intelligence (Pinochet’s secret police) and functioned from 1977 to 1990 as a body for the persecution, kidnapping, murder and disappearance of political opponents.
According to published reports, during the 17 years of the Pinochet regime, more than 40,000 crimes against humanity were recorded in the country, and there are still 1,100 people whose whereabouts are unknown.
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