Fists and tension in the Peruvian Congress: they suspend the session in which the immunity of former president Pedro Castillo was discussed

After the self-coup of the former president of the Peru, Peter Castillofor which he was dismissed and arrested, and in his place he hired the vice president Dina Bolartethat his cabinet introduced on Saturday, Congress had to deal with this Sunday if they took away your immunity president fired to advance judicial process e the session ended in scandal.

On a hot legislative day that began with delays and shouts among Peruvian congressmen, Congressman Pasión Dávila, from the Peru Libre party, and defender of former President Castillo, ran through the premises, hit an opposition lawmaker on the head and ran out. The attacker, Juan Burgos, stopped, ran over him and they had to stop him because he tried to answer.

The sequence, transmitted by the official signal of the Deputies in Peru, had an abrupt cut. An announcer, watching the skirmishes sent to the commercial courtasking for “calm”, on the air.

This Sunday night, the Peruvian Congress met to discuss a request by the prosecution to “guarantee fundamental rights and the purpose of criminal proceedings” in judicial detention for flagrance.

Specifically, Congress could waive Castillo’s immunity so that the prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, requests it pre-trial detention up to 36 months while the investigation continues. Now Castillo has only seven days in preventive detention, until next Wednesday.

Congress also faced a similar request regarding the last Prime Minister of the Castillo, Betssy Chávez, and Willy Arturo Huerta Olivas, due to his status as Interior Minister to the detained former president, while his followers demonstrated in the streets of Lima.

The tension comes amid protests by Castillo supporters outside Parliament, who paraded through the streets of Lima for the fourth consecutive day. But strong clashes were also registered between supporters of the former president detained in the southern region of the country, where they were two dead.

Crisis in Peru: two deaths and tension

“The police have clear orders, as well as the legal and legitimate exercise of authority to maintain public order and social peace”, warned the new president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, in her message to the country after the presentation of her cabinet on Saturday afternoon.

But your message It had no echo in the south of the countrywhere the defenders of former president Pedro Castillo, deposed and detained for attempting a self-coup with the closure of Congress, blocked the streets, clashed with the police and also They vandalized the Andahuaylas airport800 kilometers south of Lima, in his claim to ask for the election and the resignation of Boluarte.

Following the clashes, the State Police confirmed one victim. It is a minor of 15 years and after 18:30 they confirmed the death of another 18-year-old boy.

“No Peruvian’s life deserves to be sacrificed for political interests. I express my condolences on the death of a citizen in Andahuaylas. I reiterate my call for dialogue and an end to the violence”, said President Boluarte, who released a message on the networks after learning the identity of the first victim.

In Cuzco and Puno some organizations they declared an insurrectionand so far the biggest conflict has been in Arequipa, 1,000 kilometers south of the country, where protesters have interrupted the southern Pan-American highway since Thursday night with interruptions.

However, 750 kilometers southwest of Lima, in Andahuaylas, the riot escalated to the point that protesters vandalized and set fire to part of the airport, which had to be closed. The two dead were registered there.

“They have the transmitter room burned downthe fuel room that violently surrounds the airport, where 50 of our company’s employees are located,” reads the statement from Corpac, the body that controls Peru’s airports.

“There is a large presence of residents from the areas surrounding Andahuaylas who have come out and attacked public entities such as the tax office, the police building,” he said at the outset clarion Colonel Luján, of the Andahuaylas National Police. Even if he qualified: “The police have restored public order.”

Also, the uniformed officer acknowledged the tense situation on Saturday when there was a kidnapping of two agents by protesters in the central square of Andahuaylas. “There were two policemen arrested by the mob who weren’t participating in the operations, but were circulating, one in civilian clothes, and the mob identified and detained them,” Luján said. clarion.

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