And macabre find did this Monday, shortly after 9:00 a.m., two gendarmes who opened the cell 21 of the Biobío de Concepción Penitentiary Complex (500 km south of Santiago), to uncover its two inhabitants: one severed head He watched them intently, on the nightstand, with a Bible next to him. In the bunk, the decapitated body of Vincent González Aguirre (27 years old) and on the walls, written in bloodseveral staves and the 666, the number of the devil.
The perpetrator of the horrendous crime that shocked the country was identified as Diego Valdés San Martín (41 years old)who according to reports from the Gendarmerie would have acted “apparently motivated by a situation of mental derangementof which there was no precedent.”
“In the place it was found a bible and writings with satanic symbolsto which is added what was stated by the alleged aggressor regarding the fact that the events occurred in a context of a ritual they complemented.
The aggressor, known as “Indio Loaiza”, serves a sentence of 16 years for homicide and possession of a firearm in the city of Arica (2,000 km north of Santiago), where he is from, as was his victim. And after the fact, several voices in the opposition put into question interdict the words of the Minister of Justice, Jaime Gajardo (PC), who on Sunday, in an interview with The Mercuryassured that Gendarmerie “maintains control of the country’s prisons.”
This day, Gajardo insisted that this is an isolated and unprecedented case, and reported that “We are going to reinforce, among other things, the night shifts within the Gendarmerie. Precisely, to avoid these situations, the decision was made that the summary be as quick as possible to clarify the background.”
“This is a serious fact and quite unpublished in the Chilean prison system, that occurs in a prison that does not have overpopulation. For this reason, the measures must be reinforced so that this does not happen again in any other prison in our country” he concluded exhaustively.
Diego Valdés San Martín was convicted in April of this year by the Oral Criminal Court of Arica, after his participation in the crime was proven. murder in that city of Jeremy Santa Maria Jamett, on February 15, 2022, which included several shots at other people who were at the scene.
According to his statement, to which BBCL Investiga had access, The victim had been hired to help a rival gang in a hit. However, they did not appear, so the meeting turned into a drug and alcohol binge which ended when Valdés San Martín started shooting “thinking that they wanted to take the weapon away from him,” because he saw his victim “too close to him.”
When the Investigative Police (PDI) arrested him three days later, they found in his possession “a type of firearm. Glock Model 25 380 caliberwhich contained three cartridges inside, a weapon that had been modified by a handmade device attached to the hammer sector which transformed it into a automatic action weaponwhich was suitable for shooting, the accused not having the proper authorization for its carrying or possession.”
Once behind bars, Valdés has been involved in at least 15 incidents which include fights and carrying and manufacturing sharp edged weapons, one of which would have been used in the grisly crime. Because of this, he was seen as a “inmate of high criminal commitment” by the gendarmes and passed several days in isolation and without visits.
On the other hand, Vincent González Aguirre, the victim, sentenced to 15 years for robbery and drug trafficking in July 2022, He died waiting to be transferred to the Arica prison. his place of origin, where at least he had family who was going to visit him.
