Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
Published: October 30, 2012
MADRID (AP) — Six Chileans and an American accused of the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of a Spanish U.N. official in Chile were indicted Tuesday by a Spanish judge who issued international arrest warrants for them to be tried in Spain.
Judge Pablo Ruz charged the seven with genocide linked to the former regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and with the killing of Carmelo Soria, the Spanish diplomat who was working for the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America. The suspects were never tried for murder or torture in Chile because they were covered by an amnesty law put in place two years after Soria's murder.
All worked for DINA, Pinochet's secret police agency, and targeted Soria because they were convinced he had been helping Communists in Chile, the judge said in the National Court indictment released Thursday.
The American named is Michael Townley, who served five years in a U.S. prison for complicity in the 1976 assassination in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his assistant. Townley was in the U.S. Witness Protection Program as recently as 2010.
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