September 9, 2025 / informativoanarquista translated by Act for freedom now!

Week number five of oral trial was developed giving continuity to the raid in the “La Victoria” neighborhood, PAC, where the two brothers were arrested on December 22, 2022. Police groups OS9, GOPE and LABOCAR found various elements in this place amounting to a large amount of evidence. Using this they made long reports, including ballistics, tests of electrical elements and tests of functioning and detonation of the samples taken from the various explosives, as well as items such as electronic devices (technology) and computer expertise among other things. Reports prepared by experts and a large number of police officers were made to testify about their respective investigative stage in these reports.

They showed photographic records of various cameras that OS9 staff installed in different points of the city, which were in the vicinity of some of the homes of interest to the investigation, to obtain all kinds of information and follow up on Aldo and Lucas. As the week progressed, civilian witnesses also participated in the hearing. It is clear that from the stories of the various policemen, which are based in hypotheses and presumptions of what happened, that the investigation is biased and ineloquent.

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From Monday, August 25 to September 5, the trial against Aldo and Lucas has been going on without interruption.

In the sixth week, the prosecution continued to present proceedings consisting of different types of expert reports such as genetic and planimetric, among others, as well as showing photographs of what was found at the homes of Loncura, Quintero and Población La Victoria, PAC.

In the middle of the sixth week, the testimony of one of the last witnesses presented by the prosecution began, Case Officer (Captain of the OS9 Esteban Muñoz) who was in charge of directing all the inquiries carried out in the investigation. Therefore his exhibition consisted of giving an account of everything ordered and carried out by the various investigative teams during the period from May 3, 2021, day of the explosive attack at Apoquindo State Bank, Las Condes, to mid-2023. The case officer reported that the investigation began with this explosive attack and was subsequently grouped with the investigation of the attack on the National Directorate of the Gendarmerie of Chile on December 27, 2021. Though both events supposedly had similar modus operandi, the investigation was not able to identify any alleged perpetrator for the attack on the State Bank, so no one has been charged with this act.

The Public Prosecutor’s office included mention of this act, which is not part of the accusation against our comrades, only to contaminate the judges’ judgment by leaving the idea that the Gendarmerie was not the only attack in the air, even if there is no evidence to support an accusation against anyone, let alone Aldo and Lucas.

The statement of the case officer was accompanied by video compilations, narration of the proceedings and follow-ups, recordings from the homes of the comrades, in order to give consistency to the story presented by the prosecutor and the police of the supposed facts. We say “supposed” because many parts of the investigation were built on police hypotheses that could not be reliably proven by material evidence.

On Wednesday, September 3, the case officer concluded with his statement, followed by the last witness presented by the prosecutor who was one of the 16 Gendarmerie officials who were inside the National Directorate on the night of the explosion. This concludes the presentation of evidence offered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the witnesses, experts and other means of material evidence that were incorporated. A recess was held until Monday, September 8, when the presentation of the defense’s evidence would begin; once it had been presented, it would close the evidentiary stage and give way to closing arguments.

We call for solidarity with comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernandez who are in the final stage of the trial against them, through which the government seeks to impose numerous years of imprisonment, in order to frighten and give a clear example that the decision to carry out acts of political violence will be punished with harsh penalties and years of imprisonment, thus trying to eliminate every germ of rebellion and insurrection.