A legal medical team from the Public Prosecutor’s Office has gone to the headquarters of the National Directorate of Special Operations of Peru, where the former president Pedro Castillo is being held to conduct a toxicological examination, sources have told ‘El Comercio’.
The test is to be carried out as part of the preliminary investigation against Castillo, who is accused of a crime of rebellion, for an attempted coup against Congress.
This news has been made known after several people close to the politician have questioned the state in which the former president was at the time of reading the speech with which he dissolved the House and called for early elections.
Hours before, the congressman Guido Bellido, who was the first chief of staff of Castillo’s government, had assured that Castillo «was not in his faculties» at that moment and suggested that it could have been an «induced» movement, for which he had demanded a toxicological test.
