A group of soldiers led by Pedro Fernández Dittus, that was patrolling the streets during the Days of National Protest stopped, hit and after wetting them with a flammable liquid, lit on fire two young people: Carmen Gloria Quintana and the photographer Rodrigo Rojas de Negri.

In the neighborhood of Los Nogales, in the commune of Estación Central of Santiago, a small group of people was setting up barricades in a strategic sector, during the morning of 2 July.

At 8 in the morning the group of the protestors were intercepted on the corner of the General Velásquez Avenue and Germán Yungue Street by a military patrol under the command of Pedro Fernández Dittus and made up of 3 civilians, 5 non-commissioned officers and 17 soldiers.

On the 23rd day of the trial the facts who on the 23rd ruled: a) that Rodrigo Rojas de Negri and Carmen Quintana Arancibia were detained on the 2nd of this month by a military patrol that ensured the free movement of vehicles, temporarily holding them at the place of their arrest, one next to the other and close to easily flammable elements.

[2] In the face of criticism and pressure, a military court on 3 January 1991 only found officer Fernández Dittus guilty of negligence for denying Rojas medical assistance, but exonerated him of any responsibility in the incineration of Quintana.

The sentence convicted Julio Ernesto Castañer González, Iván Humberto Figueroa Canobra and Nelson Fidel Medina Gálvez as perpetrators to ten years and one day in prison.

While Luis Alberto Zúñiga González, Jorge Osvaldo Astorga Espinoza, Francisco Fernando Vásquez Vergara, Leonardo Antonio Riquelme Alarcón, Walter Ronny Lara Gutiérrez, Juan Ramón González Carrasco, Pedro Patricio Franco Rivas and Sergio Hernández Ávila were sentenced as accomplices to a three-year sentence and a day in prison, with the benefit of supervised release.