Chile to block extradition for Carmelo Soria 'killers'

[Judi Lynn]

14 June 2013 Last updated at 22:31 ET
Chile to block extradition for Carmelo Soria 'killers'

Chilean authorities have recommended dropping the extradition process to Spain of six former members of the country's 1970s secret police.

The men are wanted in Madrid for their alleged role in the kidnapping and murder of a Spanish diplomat during Chile's military rule.

Prosecutor Monica Maldonado said the accused men are already in Chilean prisons.

UN worker Carmelo Soria was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1976.

Some 3,000 people were killed and many more disappeared during Gen Augusto Pinochet's rule from 1973 to 1990.

The extradition request was presented by a court in Madrid investigating the alleged involvement of the six secret-police agents in the murder of Mr Soria.

Those charged include Juan Contreras, the former director of the secret police, Dina.

More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22915368

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Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
AP foreign, Tuesday October 30 2012

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has indicted six Chileans and an American for their alleged role in the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of Spanish U.N. official Carmelo Soria in Chile.

Judge Pablo Ruz charged the seven with genocide, murder and kidnapping in the National Court indictment released Tuesday. He issued international arrest warrants for them.

The seven worked for the DINA, the Chilean secret police agency under then dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. They include former DINA director Juan Contreras who is imprisoned in Chile.

The American was named as Michael Townley, a former DINA agent who served five years in a U.S. prison for complicity in the assassination in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his assistant in 1976. Townley later was put in U.S. witness protection program.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10506863

[Judi Lynn]

1. What lovely people, right-wing Pinochet's henchmen:

From the original article:

Chilean authorities say two agents stopped Carmelo Soria as he drove home in Santiago.

Mr Soria was then detained for an alleged traffic violation.

The diplomat, who was suspected by Dina of having links to the Communist Party, was questioned and tortured.

Later, the agents either forced him to drink alcohol or injected it into his bloodstream, authorities said.

He was then strangled, his body placed in his car, and the car driven into a canal.

His body was found two days later, and the official explanation was that Mr Soria had crashed into the canal drunk.

Months later, a Washington Post investigation showed his death had been the result of torture, but Chile's military authorities refused to open another investigation.

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So the Post published this information to spread the word you don't want to cross fascists, evidently. Educating the public for its own good.

[BlueToTheBone]

2. I remember the terror of that time.

What we have done throughout the world.

[ocpagu]

3. Gosh, that's horrible. n/t