The Court of Guarantee of Traiguén sentenced Emilio Berkhoff in an abbreviated procedure for the crimes of arson and robbery with violence carried out on May 10, 2020 at the El Buen Retiro estate in Lumaco, La Araucanía region.
Berkhoff is linked to the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), is currently in prison and acknowledged what happened in Lumaco.
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It should be noted that in January of this year, the High Complexity Prosecutor’s Office of La Araucanía requested 20 years in prison for the activist, but upon acknowledging his participation in the events, the Public Ministry reduced the request to seven years in prison. The sentence will be known on Monday.
The prosecutor in the case Cesar Schibar It indicated that “in order to arrive at this procedure, the will of the victim was mainly taken into consideration. In addition, that the accused, upon being convicted, will be sentenced effectively, without the possibility of obtaining any alternative benefit from the sentence.”
Berkhoff’s other accusation
Emilio Berkhoff is also charged with an arrest in 2020 in Los Vilos when he served as “cover” in a drug shipment that was headed to Concepción. The group had safe-conducts from the Virtual Police Station presenting false employment contracts.
In this case, the Biobío Prosecutor’s Office requested sentences of 20 years for those involved, for which Berkhoff risks up to 13 years in prison for the crime of drug trafficking.
The prosecutor explained that the accused “presents a current investigation for violation of the Drug Law in the Eighth Region (…). It is associated with other facts in the field of the Drug Law, which have not yet been tried.”
Before this arrest, the activist had been on probation since 2017 after the ruling of the Concepción Court of Appeals, which made this decision on the grounds that the defendant had good conduct and was already serving half of his sentence for illegal weapons possession. of fire and ammunition in 2015.
