A total of 17 demonstrators have died until this Thursday in the protest mobilizations against the government, nine of them on this day, after the entry into force of the state of emergency at the national level and with the intervention of the Armed Forces and the Police in the repression of the mobilized. The focus of tension was this day in the city of Ayacucho, in the southeast of the country, where a group of protesters invaded the airport and the military responded with tear gas bombs dropped from helicopters and shots.
The Ayacucho Regional Health Directorate, a particularly sensitive region due to the terrorist attack in its territory in the 1980s, reported on Thursday the death of 7 people and 52 injuries. as a result of the mobilizations and the confrontation with the forces of order. Faced with this situation, the Regional Government of Ayacucho issued a statement in which it blames the deaths on President Dina Boluarte, the Ministers of the Interior and Defense and affirms that they must “immediately resign from office”, and also calls for censorship of the board of directors of the Congress of the Republic to be able to install a transitional government.
Also, calls for an immediate stop to the use of firearms and the repressionn by the Armed Forces and the National Police. Two other deaths on the day were reported in the northern region of La Libertad. On this day, the state of emergency decreed by the government at the national level for 30 days to control the acts of vandalism and violence committed in the demonstrations came into full effect and this measure was added this Thursday to the curfew in 15 provinces of eight departments.
So far, the nine victims are added to the six deaths in the southern department of Apurímac, a fatality in Arequipa, and another previously deceased in La Libertad, since the protests intensified in various parts of the country. While the streets of Ayacucho and other cities in the country suffered from the mobilization of protesters, Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley dictated 18 months of preventive detention against the dismissed former president Pedro Castillo for the alleged crime of rebellion and conspiracy, after the self-coup that he attempted on December 7.
“Issuing preventive detention for a period of 18 months against the accused Pedro Castillo (…) who is under a preliminary detention order that runs from December 7, 2022 to June 6, 2024,” Checkley read after a legal exposition that lasted for more than two hours. In this way, he accepted the request made by the Prosecutor’s Office, which had considered that “there is a procedural period of escape“and in which he had a specific weight that, minutes before his dismissal, he had tried to go to the Mexican Embassy in Lima to request asylum.
The former prime minister and Castillo’s legal adviser Aníbal Torres has been included in the prosecutor’s request, and it was presented after the Judiciary authorized the request of the Public Ministry to initiate a preparatory investigation into Castillo. However, the judge did not grant that request and instead imposed a “restricted appearance order” for Torres. Castillo was arrested on December 7 after being dismissed by Congress shortly after he announced the closure of Congress, the formation of an emergency executive, which was to govern by decree and reorganize the justice system, which has been described by the majority as an attempted coup d’état .
Source: Lasexta
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