A 72-year-old German who is a former resident of the notorious Secession Colonia Dignidad in Chile is no longer being investigated for aiding and abetting murder. The investigation had been discontinued, informed the prosecutor Münster.
The man living in Gronau in North Rhine-Westphalia was accused of having participated in the 1976 murder of at least one Chilean opposition during the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The person concerned had rejected this as slander and slander. He had himself become a victim of the notorious cult leader Paul Schäfer and had not listened to his leadership. True, on the orders of Schafer, he guarded and cared for a prisoner in a cellar. He did not notice anything about shootings.
The prosecutor in Münster had the 72-year-olds can prove anything different. Apart from the murder allowance, all other conceivable offenses since 1976 would have been time-barred anyway. It was no longer clear when and where the opposition were murdered, said the prosecutor.
The settlement Colonia Dignidad, founded by German emigrants, is located about 350 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile. A German sect had emigrated there from Siegburg near Bonn in the early 1960s. Founder Paul Schäfer was sentenced to 20 years in Chile and died in 2010.