US EditionGermany Plans Talks with Chile over Site Tied to Cult Led by Abusive German Preacher
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The spokesman for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kathrin Deschauer, referred this Monday to the decision of the government of José Antonio Kast not to continue the expropriation of Colonia Dignidad, an initiative announced by the administration of Gabriel Boric in 2024.The Minister of Housing and Urbanism, Iván Poduc, confirmed to La Tercera the intention of the government to turn back the expropriation of 117 hectares of Colonia Dignid…
On the former grounds of the German sect Colonia Dignidad in Chile, terrible deeds were committed. Therefore, there should be a place of remembrance there. Now the new, right-wing Chilean government wants to prevent this.
Germany plans talks with Chile over site tied to cult led by abusive German preacher
BERLIN/SANTIAGO, March 30 - Germany will talk to Chile's new right-wing government about reports that it is dropping plans to turn a settlement founded by a German cult leader and sex abuser into a memorial to victims of torture. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Many people were tortured and killed in the sect-like settlement between 1973 and 1990. The former government had ordered the expropriation of the settlement site. This is now to be changed again.
People were tortured and abused in the Colonia Dignidad sect. Chile's new ultra-right-wing government is now scraping its plans to build a memorial.
Actually, the German settlement Colonia Dignidad was to become a memorial for the victims of the sect. Chile's new right-wing government has overturned the decision.
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