Chile to try former secret police for diplomat's death

Chile to try former secret police for diplomat's death
By AFP Aug 19, 2015 in World .

Chile to try former secret police for diplomat's death

Fifteen former members of Chile's dictatorship-era secret police must stand trial for the 1976 kidnapping and killing of a Spanish diplomat, the country's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Prosecutors accuse the secret police of abducting, torturing and killing Carmelo Soria, an official with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America who was found dead inside his car in July 1976.

Investigators say Soria was targeted for assassination by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime as a suspected member of Chile's then-banned communist party.

Reversing a 2014 decision by chief justice Lamberto Cisternas, the full court ruled the 15 former agents must be tried on homicide and conspiracy charges.

More:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/chile-to-try-former-secret-police-for-diplomat-s-death/article/441529#ixzz3jQjSkcsO