Fugitive Chile cult leader held

By Clinton Porteous
BBC correspondent in Santiago


A former Nazi who is wanted in Chile on child sex abuse charges has been arrested in Argentina.

A joint operation between Argentine and Chilean police led to the detention of Paul Schaefer, who has been an international fugitive for eight years.

Schaefer, who is in his 80s, is wanted in Chile over the abuse of children in a closed community that he joined in 1961 after arriving from Germany.

The Colonia Dignidad community was cut off from the outside world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4338825.stm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/chileargentinagermanynazi

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - A former German Nazi soldier turned Chilean sect leader has been arrested in Argentina and will face child sex abuse charges.

Paul Schaefer, 83, was detained Thursday in a joint operation between Argentine and Chilean police in the small town of Tortuguitas west of Buenos Aires.

Schaefer had been in hiding since a warrant for his arrest on multiple counts of pedophilia was issued in August 1996.


Former members of the cult have testified that Schaefer systematically abused young children in the colony, many of whom were taken from their parents at birth.


Schaefer was convicted of the charges in absentia in November 2004 along with 22 other Dignidad members.

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:kick: :kick: :kick:

I know there are a lot of contenders but that is being repulsive.

Burn and rot you piece of garbage.

the Aryan white supremacists and neo-Nazi to follow.

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Former Nazi Pedophile Nabbed in Argentina

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Paul Schäfer

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Friday hailed the arrest of former Nazi Paul Schaefer in Argentina and said he hoped it would shed light on alleged child sex abuse at a shady sect he led in Chile.

Paul Schäfer, 83, was arrested in the community of Tortuguitas, a town 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of Buenos Aires along with six people described as his security team, Argentine police said.

Schäfer was the charismatic leader of a notorious German enclave in southern Chile called "Colonia Dignidad." He has been hiding since a warrant for his arrest on multiple counts of pedophilia was issued in August 1996. Schäfer was convicted of the charges in November 2004 along with 22 other Dignidad members.

"The arrest of Paul Schaefer is good news," Fischer said. "His arrest will allow a comprehensive investigation all the criminal activities in the former Colonia Dignidad to be carried out and punishments to be handed down."
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1515223,00.html

if you're gonna get someone to teach your police how to be murderous assholes, the Nazis qualify...

It is strange, somehow, to think that there are still nazis out there worth catching. reminds one of how close in time all that evil was.

alone, that they don't 'deserve' to be hunted down. Some of them post on this board. Amazing. I hope they hang him.

Oh, Lord, sweep up all the wicked criminals in your Justice, and uphold the Truth tellers, in Argentina, in Germany, in Fallujah, in Italy, in Washington DC, and in the rest of America, and the world!

TBG--Amen!

There are more than 1,100 desaparecidos (disappeared persons) in Chile and one of them is a U.S. citizen - Boris Weisfeiler. A Russian-born mathematics professor at Pennsylvania State University, Weisfeiler vanished while on a hiking trip near the border between Chile and Argentina in the early part of January 1985. After a quick and cursory investigation, Chilean authorities concluded that Weisfeiler had drowned in the Nuble River during his trip.

Declassified U.S. documents tell a different story. According to an informant, Weisfeiler was detained by Augusto Pinochet's soldiers, presumed to be a Russian or Jewish spy, and taken to the mysterious German colony Colonia Dignidad. The declassified U.S. documents show that the U.S. Embassy personnel did not do enough to ascertain the fate of Weisfeiler, the only missing U.S. citizen in Chile. As consul Jayne Kobliska stated more than a year after Weisfeiler's disappearance in a memo from April 1986, "the real danger in this case is that we will delay action until it is too late to either save Weisfeiler's life or to determine the true circumstances of his death." <snip>

On January 25, 2005 President of the Chilean Supeme Court, Marcos Libedinsky, anounced that the Supreme Court has set a six-month deadline for the completion of hundreds of human rights investigations relating to crimes allegedly committed by former members of Augusto Pinochet's military government during 1973 -1990. The ruling orders that by July investigators must either file charges or terminate the inquiries in 365 cases against former members of the armed forces. The deadline will not be kept in cases where there is a strong reason for an extension, Libedinsky said.

http://boris.weisfeiler.com/index.html

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