The request of the Chilean Government for ccomplete the extradition of the Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala, who has already entered the Argentine Foreign Ministry, that notified the federal court of Bariloche, reported this Tuesday from the federal prosecutor’s office of Bariloche.
they said to BLACK RIVER what this Monday “the extradition request was formally entered” for Jones Huala to serve the sentence imposed on him by a trial court in Chile. The request was channeled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the national government.
They explained that the formal request of the Republic of Chile enters that way. In the federal court of Bariloche, the legal steps of the extradition process will continue.
Rio Negro Police arrested Jones Huala at dawn on January 30, at a home in the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood of El Bolsón. The Mapuche leader, who claims the existence of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), He had been a fugitive from Chilean justice since the beginning of February of last year.
Sources that were in contact with the case commented that theThe Mapuche referent wants a new extradition trial to be held. Although one was already made between February and early March 2018 in Bariloche, which ended with the sentence of the federal judge of first instance Gustavo Villanueva, whowho declared the extradition admissible of the then Lonco of the Lof de Resistencia in Cushamen, Chubut.
The Supreme Court confirmed it at the end of August of that year. And in September, they extradited Jones Huala, who was tried at the end of 2018 by the judges of the Oral Criminal Court of Valdivia.
Sentence
That court sentenced 6 years in effective prison for the burning of an inhabited house and 3 years and one day, also effective, for illegal possession of weapons, crimes committed in January 2013 in a field in Río Bueno, Chile.
The trial court computed in his favor the 1,178 days of preventive detention that he served in Argentina and Chile. PTherefore, in this way, he must remain imprisoned in the Temuco jail for 5 years and seven months. On January 21 of last year, the Temuco Court of Appeals granted him probation. The Supreme Court of Chile revoked it in mid-February 2022.
However, they could not arrest him because he fled and since then he was a fugitive from Chilean justice until last January 30 when the Río Negro Police detained him in El Bolsón. Later, a Chilean court admitted the immediate extradition request.
From the federal prosecutor’s office they explained that Jones Huala could not serve the sentence imposed by the Chilean justice system in Argentina. “It could not be done because for that to happen they have to have a remainder to serve a minimum of 2 years in prison,” they commented.
The sources that were in contact with Jones Huala explained that he requested his transfer to the Esquel federal prison, which was arranged earlier this month, to be closer to his family. And they clarified that he has no firm conviction in Argentina.
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