A Chilean judge spent two hours inside the secluded home of Augusto Pinochet today where he went to interrogate the former strongman for the first time in a three-year investigation of his alleged role in human rights abuses during 17 years in power.
But it was unclear if Pinochet actually answered Judge Juan Guzman's questions.
Witnesses said Justice Guzman was a passenger in a dark blue car with tinted windows that sped into Pinochet's heavily guarded residence on the slopes of the Andes on the outskirts of the capital Santiago.
Several dozen supporters of Pinochet, 85, who ran Chile with an iron fist from 1973-1990 and still is widely seen as untouchable, waved banners and photographs of the retired general on the street outside his house.
The judge, who did not speak to the media throng gathered outside Pinochet's house, was to take with him the results of examinations done two weeks ago on the former army commander to determine if he possesses sufficient mental health for trial.
-Reuters