In interviews with the author, Lacoste stated that he had “punished 480 officers for brutalisation”; Teitgen, however, counters that none of the punished suffered any serious setbacks to their careers.

QUESTION: What does 'punished' mean here, and how effective was any disciplinary action really if careers were unaffected?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 643