The senator of the Socialist Party, fidel espinozacommunicated this Friday the escape of Rene Villarroelalias Juan Metralla, who is the murderer of his father, the former deputy, Luis Espinoza, and who was facing the beginning of his sentence.
It should be noted that Villaroel is accused of shooting 17 times at Luis Espinoza Villalobosfor which the Supreme Court decreed a sentence of 15 years and one day of effective jail, which was to begin today at 2:00 p.m.
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Faced with this situation, the PS parliamentarian spoke with Bio Bio Radio, noting that “we have been pending this situation all day (…) For our family, for our mother, for my brothers and the whole family in general, it is a very special day”, adding that “Chilean justice has taken an enormous amount of time in making this happen”.
He also had words against the lawyers of Juan Metralla: “The lawyers of René Villarroel, alias Juan Metralla, a human rights violator, together with the lawyer of the other sergeant who is convicted, Carlos Tapia, requested this week the possibility of surrendering themselves to the Justice”.
“It was a possibility that the old justice system gave them, so as not to be apprehended in their homes, that is, they acted cowardly until the last day (…) The information we have is that only Carlos Tapia entered the court, who is already held in Punta Peuco to serve his sentence,” he added.
“Facilities like these that have been granted to human rights violators, apart from going to privileged prisons like Punta Peuco, re-victimize our families,” he concluded.
I have just been informed that the main murderer of my father, René Villarroel, alias “Juan Metralla” has been a fugitive from justice since 2 pm today. They gave him all the options so that he could flee. They allowed him to go voluntarily surrender. There are the consequences. pic.twitter.com/Xkx2a2gv9u
– Fidel Espinoza Sandoval (@fidelsenador) July 29, 2022
Case
On December 2, 1973, in the northern sector of Frutillar, Los Lagos region, former Carabineros officers, Carabineros René Isidro Villarroel Sobarzo and Carlos Segundo Tapia Galleguillos, fired shots at the former socialist deputy, Luis Espinoza Villalobos (36 years old), who was taken to the Valdivia prison after the coup d’état on September 11, 1973. Where he was taken on September 26 of the same year to be transferred to Puerto Montt, to the Chin Chin prison. The next day they took him out again to be handed over to the Carabineros, after being convicted of the crime of contempt, even though he had already been detained.
According to witnesses to the event, Espinoza was transferred to a headquarters of the Investigative Police (PDI) to be transferred on December 2, 1973 to the Second Police Station of the same city.
As reported at the time by the newspaper The Llanquihue There was a confrontation between the vehicle that transferred Espinoza and another, which caused the former deputy to take the opportunity to flee. Faced with this action, the shots were fired to repel the escape. However, connoisseurs of “Juan Metralla” indicate that he was a fan of shooting at the population as a form of intimidation, hence the nickname.
This year in a unanimous ruling, the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court rejected the appeals and the application of the “half prescription” requested by the defense of the two former officers. Finally, the highest court confirmed the sentence challenged in the first instance by the minister Alvaro Mesa Latorre in January 2019. This first sentence was 18 years in prison, but it was lowered after a resolution of the Temuco Court of Appeals in September 2019, it was this sentence that incurred the request for cassation, which was rejected this year .
