Chile Court Overturns Murder Verdict In Ex-president Frei s Death By Paula Bustamante
01/25/21 AT 3:29 PM
Appeals judges in Chile said Monday ex-president Eduardo Frei s death four decades ago was not murder, overruling a 15-year investigation which concluded he was poisoned in hospital by agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The panel of three judges cleared all six people convicted and sentenced to jail two years ago over Frei s death.
The ex-president s family and political party cried foul, however, and vowed to have the latest ruling overturned. We will point to the evidence that (investigating magistrate Alejandro) Madrid accumulated in the long investigation to show that it was murder, Frei s family said in a statement issued by their lawyers.