This Friday, Seventh Criminal Oral Trial Court of Santiago condemned the former police officers Alexis Contreras and Felipe Cifuentes to a sentence of four years in prison for the consummate crime of torture, for an act that occurred in October 2019, within the framework of social outburst.
After a unanimous decision, the magisterium determined that “Without a doubt, the victim was in the custody and ‘protection and protection’ of the State agents.” The accessory measures of absolute perpetual disqualification for political rights and absolute disqualification from public office during the time of sentence will also be applied to them.
The ruling indicated that on October 21, 2019, “with the State of Constitutional Exception in force and a curfew decreed at 8:00 p.m.”, the 16-year-old victim was moving through the streets of Walker Martínez with Alicahue. , in the commune of Florida.
At that moment, the teenager was approached by municipal security officials, who received the notice that he had participated in a computer theft. He lay face down on the floor and was handcuffed.
Then the Second Sergeant Alexis Contreras and First Corporal Felipe Cifuentes, who took over the custody of the minor.
“These two police officers, finding the adolescent in their custody, deprived of liberty and handcuffed, began to demand that he point out the place where the stolen computers were located, the victim responding that he did not know what they were talking about, and they began to beat him repeatedly with their service poles, in different parts of the body, especially in the area of the back, legs and head, while they continued demanding that he indicate where he had left the species. The minor shouted asking them to stop beating him and for help ”, indicates the court ruling.
The minor had “visible” injuries to his back, arms, lip and thighs, which were later classified as “minor” by the Legal Medical Service, in a report of November 28, 2019.
Due to these facts, the Prosecutor’s Office requested eight years in prison for the former rabiners, who were formalized and placed in preventive detention on November 27, 2019.
According to Article 150 A of the Penal Code, The crime of torture committed by public officials carries the “penalty of greater imprisonment in its minimum degree”, excluding the “minimum degree” to which the torture of another deprived of liberty or in his custody.
Likewise, the court took into account other mitigating circumstances related to the collaboration of the accused with the establishment of the facts. Which led them to reduce the sentence by one degree, remaining in a minor prison at its maximum degree. “Within that degree, a sentence of four years will be imposed, considering the age of the victim,” the ruling said.
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