Spain sentences ex-colonel to 133 years in El Salvador’s 1989 Jesuit priest massacre
Inocente Orlando Montano, who served as vice minister for public security during El Salvador’s 1979-1992 civil war, denied having taken part or ordering the massacre.
Sept. 11, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
By Nicole Acevedo
A former Salvadoran colonel was sentenced to 133 years in prison for the killings of five Jesuit priests more than three decades ago, a court in Spain ruled Friday.
Spain’s National Court in Madrid ruled that Inocente Orlando Montano, an ex-colonel who served as El Salvador’s vice minister for public security during the country’s 1979-1992 civil war, was responsible for the 1989 “terrorist assassinations.”
Montano, 77, listened from a wheelchair as judges read the verdict, imprisoning him to 26 years, eight months and one day for each of the deaths. The verdict can be appealed.
