The exhumation of the remains of former Chilean President Salvador Allende will be held next May 23 to clarify whether he committed suicide, as argued by the official version, or were executed during the coup that ousted him in 1973, informed the presiding judge process.
"We set today (Friday) the date of May 23. The schedule is not set, because it depends a lot of people who will participate" in the measure, which is part of a judicial investigation, told AFP the judge Mario float.
The judge gave no further details of the exhumation, but said that "everything will be public knowledge, as appropriate."
The skills will be in charge of the Legal Medical Service of Chile and will be held after the April 15, justice agreed to a request from the president's family to exhume his remains.
Salvador Allende died at age 65 amid the military uprising that installed the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973.
The coach seeks to determine the cause of death, so far attributed to suicide by firing a rifle donated by former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
His family continues to support the thesis of suicide, but he believes necessary to clarify the circumstances in which death occurred Allende, who was in the middle of aerial and ground bombardment of the presidential palace of La Moneda.
Allende had warned he was prepared to die rather than surrender to the military.
The inquest to determine the cause of the death of former president opened Jan. 27 after the prosecution established that the death of at least 726 of more than 3,000 victims who left the dictatorship were not subject to judicial inquiry including the former president.
Allende is considered the first and only Marxist to power in Chile through the polls, the November 3, 1970 and remained in command of his country for 1,000 days.