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The Prosecutor’s Office of the Arica and Parinacota region determined this Monday to initiate an ex officio investigation for the crime of illegitimate pressures after the death of Franco Vargas, a 19-year-old young man who died under strange circumstances while doing his military service in Putre.
The conscript died on April 27 after a training march. Although the Army assured that he would have been taken alive to the Cesfam in Putre, the health center in question responded this Monday that he arrived “without vital signs and without response to verbal or physical stimuli.”
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In addition, another 45 soldiers, all from the Motorized Brigade No. 24 “Huamachuco”, fell ill in parallel, which has seriously questioned the Army.
The case was assigned to prosecutor Anatole Larrabeiti Yáñez
According to what El Mostrador publishes, the regional prosecutor, Mario Carreraannounced that this cause was assigned to the prosecutor Anatole Larrabeiti Yáñezhead of the local Prosecutor’s Office of Arica.
The investigation was born after the complaint that the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) made last Friday before the Public Ministry for possible irregularities in Franco’s death.
His death occurred last Saturday, April 27, after suffering a respiratory infection in the middle of an exercise routine carried out in the highlands, at 4,000 meters high and 15 degrees below zero.
Another 45 conscripts presented the same discomfort, some of whom had to be hospitalized, which sparked a controversy between the Army and the parents of those affected due to alleged negligence.
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