A a week after the self-coup attempt of State with the closure of the Congress, the former president of Peru, Peter Castillo He continues to be detained on the outskirts of Lima with preventive detention which in principle the Justice has dictated for a week and in a clear message to fuel the disorder he has summoned the demonstrators to the door of the place of detention: “At 1.42 I will go free“.
The southern part of the country continues to be devastated by attacks on public buildings in Arequipa, 1,000 kilometers south of the country, where protesters they vandalized the airport and flights have been cancelled, as in Cusco, one of Peru’s tourist icons for the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. The checkpoints continue, the victims already amount to six and even so the former president Castillo fuels the protests.
The former president testified before the country’s highest court on Tuesday and issued a proclamation to his followers so they will receive it when You know they won’t let you go. In full hearing the supreme judge César San Martín, who presided over the court that sentenced the former president Albert Fujimoristopped him but Castillo also published a letter.
“Fellow countrymen: tomorrow, Wednesday 14 December, seven days have passed since an unjust and abusive detention. Seven days in which the people have shown me solidarity and commitment in defense of our government and its future. Tomorrow at 1.42 pm. I will leave released , I await you all in the Diores facilities to join you in a big hug”, says the handwritten letter from Castillo, who signs himself as “Constitutional President of Peru”.
Ronald Atencio, one of Castillo’s lawyers, vehemently read the letter in front of the media and then called the protesters on social networks for 11 in the morning.
After 9am in Peru, there were already demonstrators from Castillo on the periphery of the National Directorate of Special Operations, better known by the acronym Diores. It is a base of the National Police of Peru which according to information a clarionIt has two thousand troops.
139 visits
According to data from the Ombudsman of Peru, an autonomous body, Castillo until Tuesday he had been visited by 139 people, ranging from relatives, members of Congress, social leaders to lawyers and even friends. And on Tuesday the Ombudsman went to review the conditions of detention of the former president.
“At the end of the management, it was possible to verify that the former president, detained by order of the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic, receives adequate treatment, in accordance with the provisions of the art. legal system, without evidence of violation of their rights as a detained person, for five days,” the agency said.
The government of Peru tries to control the routes
As the blockades continue in the south of the country, the new defense minister, Alberto Alberto Otárola, who already held that role during the government of Ollanta Humala, has announced that he will declare the state of emergency for domestic routes of the country to advance control
“The national road network is about to be declared in emergency, we will take control of the entire national road network throughout the country to ensure the free transit of all Peruvians and that they can properly exercise the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.”
In turn, after the declaration of the “State of Emergency” in Arequipa, the armed forces are already presiding over the headquarters of the Judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office.
On Tuesday afternoon the Police informed clarion that about a thousand protesters took control of the GAS TGP plant in Kumpirushiato, about 1,000 kilometers from Lima, near Cusco. And also that they ransacked a food company.
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Source: Clarin
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