This Thursday, the Peruvian Police (PNP) increased the number of people arrested during the protests of the so-called Toma de Lima that took place on Wednesday evening to ten.

“There have been more or less ten detainees,” he told the radio station PTR General Roger Pérez, Director of the Lima Police Region.

He explained that while there were initially six arrests, as the government reported Wednesday night, later the footage from the security cameras in the center of the Peruvian capital made it possible to make other arrests.

Protests in Peru against the new president Dina Boluarte, who does not rule out early elections

“We even identified the person who launched an incendiary bomb, the Molotov (bomb), in such a way that they were later captured, so about 10 prisoners have been added together,” he said.

The general added that the person who allegedly threw the firebomb at riot police has no criminal record.

He also calculated that “almost a thousand people” who came from other regions of the country joined the marches in the center of Lima, where he said about 4,500 people gathered, out of a total of 21,000 protesters who took part in the nationwide protest, according to government data.

Protests resumed this Wednesday in Peru, after several months of suspension, after they took place between December and March last year that left 49 people dead in direct clashes with security forces.

The demonstrators are demanding Boluarte’s resignation, the closure of the Congress and the calling of new general elections and a Constituent Assembly.