Paul Schäfer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Underground, 1996–2005== Only after 26 "colono" children who had attended the commune's free clinic and school reported their abuse, a judge in Santiago issued a warrant for Schäfer’s arrest, 6 years into Chile´s democratic transition. Police could not find him on the compound.<ref name="falc"/> Children continued to attend the boarding school, but support of local parents dwindled. Schäfer turned teary-eyed departures into propaganda to prove his innocence. Schäfer finally staged a farewell ceremony and disappeared into the network of tunnels and bunkers under Colonia Dignidad.<ref name=ard2/> He disappeared on 20 May 1997, escaping child [[sexual abuse|sex abuse]] charges, filed by Chilean authorities under President [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]].<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/12/warcrimes.chile |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Fugitive Nazi cult leader arrested |date=12 March 2005 |access-date=2 April 2008 | location=London | first=Luke | last=Harding}}</ref> In July 1997, two boys fled to the German embassy; one of them, Tobias Müller, was flown out to Germany.<ref name=ard2/> Schäfer was tried in absence and in late 2004 the Chilean court found him guilty.<ref name="Guardian"/> He was also under investigation in Chile in connection with the disappearance of Russian mathematician [[Boris Weisfeiler]] and alleged [[human rights]] abuses.<ref name="Guardian"/> As of 2005, Schäfer was also wanted in Germany and France in connection with earlier child abuse allegations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Argentina expels Chile cult head |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4344503.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=13 March 2005 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page