Five convicts of terrorism have left Peru in recent years without paying civil compensation

This week, we learned that the terrorists Martha Huatay and Maritza Garrido Leccaboth related to luminous path genocide Abimael Guzmanleft the country unexpectedly and silently despite the fact that they still have accounts pending with Peruvian justice.

Huatay fled to Argentina in June last year in full trial for the subversive attack in the street Taratalocated in the Lima district of mirafloresJuly 16, 1992. Specifically, the Second Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor Specialized in Human Rights, Interculturality and Crimes of Terrorism last Thursday supported the request for preventive detention of nine months against him.

Under the tax assumption, Huatay received the order from the Shining Path Central Committee to carry out the car bomb attack on Tarata Street. Furthermore, he clarifies that they could not exempt the 79-year-old hiker from serious punishment, since the crime of terrorism, in its simple or aggravated form, does not entitle you to any type of benefit. Likewise, they consider that the fact that he left the country would constitute judicial avoidance.

For all this he Public minister sought life imprisonment for Huatay who was released from prison in 2017 after serving time for his ties to the terrorism.

For his part, Garrido Lecca also flew to Argentina on July 3, 2022. The former dancer was released in 2017 after serving his sentence for his terrorist past. In recent years, he has made four trips abroad.

The first happened in 2018 when he was about to Chile between May 31 and June 5. Then, in 2019, he stayed at Colombia from October 4 to 15. Two years later, Garrido Lecca flew to Spain where he was from August 11 to October 20. In 2021, he also traveled to Argentina between December 9 and 17.

Despite these trips abroad, Garrido Lecca owes 40,000 soles in civil compensation to the Peruvian State.

In both cases, neither Huatay nor Garrido Lecca asked for forgiveness. However, they are not the only ones.

Lori Berenson was an American journalist with ties to the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)since he rented his house in La Molina to members of this terrorist organization.

On November 30, 1995, Berenson ended up being arrested along with other MRTA members as they planned to storm the Congress of the Republic and kidnap parliamentarians for money. Initially, he was sentenced to life which he was going to serve in Putumayo prison in Puno.

However, the Judicial authority canceled the sentence to impose another 20 years and a civil compensation of 100 thousand soles. Berenson served her sentence in 2015 and was immediately deported to UNITED STATES. So far he has not paid a single sol for the huge damage he has caused in Peru.

Likewise, the Chilean terrorist Jaime Castillo Petruzzi He was deported by Peruvian authorities to his country after serving his 23-year sentence. According to truth and reconciliation commissionthis subject bore the nickname “Torito” and participated in the murder of businessman David Ballón Vera, on February 24, 1993, which the MRTA attributed as his own.

Finally, there is the case of the terrorist Peter Cardenas Schultzwho has been living for several years Sweden. He emigrated to the European country after serving his sentence for participating in the assassination of the Minister of Defense, Enrique Lopez Albujaron January 9, 1990.

Cárdenas Schultz follows Peruvian politics closely. In 2021, he told the magazine faces that I was going to return to Peru if Pedro Castillo wins the presidency of the Republic.