:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/337TAKKTPEVMUVBV47KIHMEKLA.jpg "The Attorney General’s Office supported Dina Boluarte’s request to participate in the investigation: “A right of procedural participation has been violated”")
Before the Supreme Court of Preparatory Instruction, presided over by the magistrate Juan Carlos Checkleythere State Attorney General’s Office supported his request for protection of the rights to be part of the investigation against the President of the Republic, In Boluarte, and the prime minister Alberto Otarola for the alleged crime of genocide.
Dina Boluarte chaired the first ordinary session of the National Council for Citizen Security
The Head of State took advantage of the meeting to inform that 16 new National Police Schools of Peru will be created
Others involved in the case – which also includes the alleged crimes of aggravated homicide and grievous bodily harm – are the Minister of Defence, Jorge Chavez; the old Pedro Angle and the former Minister of the Interior, Caesar Cervantes.
Those mentioned are studied for the deaths produced within the framework of the demonstrations, at the national levelstarted in December last year.
Alberto Otárola has ruled out a second ‘Take of Lima’ in the coming days
The Prime Minister has guaranteed that the National Police will maintain order in the capital. Additionally, he revealed that President Dina Boluarte will soon testify for the dead in the protests.
During the hearing, raised this Thursday March 2IThe defense of the State requested the cancellation of the act of declaration of the Prime Ministerwhich provided its defenses on February 16. The institution insisted that the Public minister plan a new procedure with the participation of the lawyer.
“They don’t have to cancel the statement. If they want clarification (they can ask for it) (…) the interpretation made by the General Prosecutor’s Office is not appropriate because it cannot be extensive or analogous (…) annulling the statement that ‘they are harming him (the Prime Minister),’ said the prosecutor of Otarola Penaranda.
Alberto Otárola assured that the intensity of social protests will decrease in the coming days
The Prime Minister indicated that the Government “took appropriate decisions” despite the death toll of 60 during clashes with the Armed Forces. He avoided answering whether President Dina Boluarte would stay on until 2026 in case Congress did not approve a snap election.
In turn, from Attorney General’s Office It was recalled that the Supreme Court “has established that there is a right to the truth, to know what really happened and to have the legitimacy to claim” in the context of a procedure.
“Our right to participate is not to sit and listen to what a researcher says, but to have the opportunity to ask questions through the Public minister (…) in this case, if a right to participate in the proceedings has been violated because we are not judges, we are a procedural party who has the right to actively participate because they have the right to know, their right to the truth, which has already been established by the Supreme Court”, have– they pointed out.
After concluding the reports of the representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the General Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Defense of the Head of the Minister’s Cabinet, the Chief Justice Checkley announced that its decision would be notified within the estimated legal deadline.