The Peruvian Council of Ministers has denied this Friday that none of its members ordered the National Police to carry out the controversial intervention at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima, where 200 people were arrested.
«False. No official of the Council of Ministers gave any order to the General Command of the Peruvian Police to intervene on January 21 at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos», has denied the information published this Friday by the weekly ‘Hildebrandt en sus trece’.
Last January 21, some 400 police officers violently stormed the university to evict demonstrators who were staying overnight in the center. That controversial operation is one more of those carried out by the Peruvian security forces, whose repression of the protests has left about 60 dead.
During those days, the university campus was a refuge and resting place for hundreds of people who had come to Lima from other parts of Peru to participate in the protests against the Congress and the government of Dina Boluarte, from whom they demand an early election and a process to change the Constitution.
Nearly 200 people were detained without due process, as denounced by student groups and demonstrators. Only four of them were charged with terrorism. The day after they were detained they were released. Many of them denounce that they were not returned their belongings, including money and their identity documents.
The operation took place in the midst of a state of emergency decreed by the Boluarte government, which maintains the legality of the operation and the autonomous role of the police due to the country’s state of emergency.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
