Wednesday, December 14, 2005

COLONIA DIGNIDAD LEADER INTERRORGATED BY JUDGE

The investigating Judge in the Colonia Dignidad case Jorge Zepeda interrogated former colony leader Paul Schäfer Tuesday about the murder of Miguel Becerra, a former agent of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA). Colonia Dignidad was a right-wing paramilitary compound run by German immigrants suspected of collaborating with former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Authorities are trying to piece together what happened to Becerra when he tried to resign from DINA and leave the colony in 1974. At the time Becerra was living with his son at the compound. Less than a year later, his body was found inside his car a short distance from the colony.

Judge Zepeda earlier determined that Becerra was poisoned with a piece of fruit but is still trying to determine the motives behind the murder, the interrogation failed to provide any useful information for the investigation.

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