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Chilean judge Alejandro Madrid on Wednesday sentenced six people for their participation in the murder of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva in 1982.
The judge, who is part of the Santiago Court of Appeal , was sentenced an official of the National Information Center (CNI), the political police of the Pinochet dictatorship, the former driver of Frei Montalva and four doctors who attended the former president of the Clínica Santa María, where he died on January 22, 1982
The decision is unprecedented in the history of Chile. It is the first time that the justice of the court convicts anyone of the murder of a president. In the sentence, which has more than 800 pages, Madrid considers the doctor Patrício Silva as the author of the murder and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, the heaviest among the six convicts.
The personal drivers of former INC president and informer, Luis Becerra, and Raul Lillo, civilian agent of the secret police, were sentenced to seven years in prison as co-perpetrators of the murder.
Pedro Valdivia, considered an accomplice to the crime, was sentenced to five years in prison, which can be served freely. The same is true for the lawyers Helmar Rosenberg and Sergio González, who were sentenced to three years' imprisonment because, according to the Madrid evaluation, they had helped the perpetrators to conceal it.
Frei Montalva, who led a nascent opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship before the badbadination, died during a small digestive operation at the Clínica Santa María.
After 19 years of investigation, the judge in charge of the case concludes that the former president had been murdered at the clinic, hypothesis defended from the outset by Carmen Frei, daughter of Frei Montalva, who had started the procedure in Chile. .
The possibility of poisoning the former president at the hospital has grown since 2006, the year his body was exhumed. Three years later, Madrid confirmed that he had died after being poisoned by toxic substances and opened an investigation into the involvement of a greater number of people in the murder of Frei Montalva.
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