They Reveal the Functions Performed at the Origin of the Mega-Fire by the Two New Defendants: They Were Placed in Pretrial Detention.

Chats from a WhatsApp group allowed the prosecution to come to the conviction that these two firefighters (at the time of the tragedy) are linked to what happened, as they planned and devised the fire that eventually spread to three other communes in the Fifth Region.

The Court of Guarantee of Valparaíso today ordered –Friday, 23 May – the precautionary measure of pretrial detention for the two new accused for the crime of the perpetrators of the mega-fire that affected much of the cities of Viña del Mar and Quilpué in February 2024. With this, there are already nine persons involved in these regrettable acts that caused the death of 138 victims. In addition, they are also persons linked to Firefighters and t…