The former Chilean military prosecutor Alfonso Podlech has turned himself in to the police this Friday for being a co-author of the crime of Jaime Eltit, committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and has been transferred to the Colina I Penitentiary Compliance Center.
The Chilean Supreme Court ordered a few weeks ago that Podlech should serve a seven-year prison sentence for the arrest and subsequent disappearance of the young Chilean, according to radio station ‘BioBioChile’.
Eltit was arrested in Santiago de Chile on September 13, 1973 and disappeared in Temuco just one month later.
Podlech had already been arrested in 2008 in Spain and charged with human rights violations during the Pinochet dictatorship. He was later extradited to Italy for the September 1973 arrest and disappearance of former priest Omar Venturelli.
More than 28,000 people were tortured during the dictatorship, during which some 3,200 were killed, while some 200,000 were forced into exile, according to official figures.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
