:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/GNUC5LYEFLUPYCUMQ5EPN35TV4.jpg "The judiciary will rule on the request for the protection of the rights of Dina Boluarte in a complaint of genocide")
The judge Juan Carlos Checkley will decide in the next few days the request for protection of the rights raised by the State Attorney General’s Office to be part of the investigation for genocide against the President To Boluarte there Alberto OtarolaChief of Staff.
In a hearing held on Thursday, the state defense also requested that the record of the Prime Minister’s statement be quashed, arguing that the prosecution failed to notify counsel of these proceedings and, therefore, it was done without his presence. injured party.
“They don’t have to rescind the statement. If they want clarification (they can request 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 prejudicial to him (the prime minister)’, pleaded the defense of Otarola.
In turn, the Attorney General’s Office 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.
The prosecution, on the other hand, argued that the presence of the Attorney General’s office as an aggrieved party does not adhere to the principle of legality and that the fact that it participated in other statements does not become a precedent. rights generator.
The prosecutor replied that the principle of legal certainty had been violated in the investigation, although the argument was rejected by the prosecution, which asked to declare the investigation unfounded. protection of rights in favor of the Head of State and the Prime Minister.
On January 10, the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavidesorganized to open the preliminary investigation against Boluarte, Alberto Otárola and the Minister of Defense, Jorge Chávez.
Likewise, against Pedro Angulo, in his capacity as former President of the Council of Ministers; César Cervantes, as former Minister of the Interior, as well as against his successor, Víctor Rojas, who held the post until January 13.
The preliminary investigation concerns the alleged crimes of “genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries, committed during the demonstrations of the months of December 2022 and January 2023 in the regions of Apurímac, La Libertad, Puno, Junín, Arequipa and Ayacucho”, according to the public prosecutor.
The prosecution also confirmed that it was investigating the soldiers and police who intervened in the repression of the anti-government demonstrations on December 15 in Ayacucho, in the south of the country, during which ten people were killed.
Since anti-government protests erupted last December, after former President Pedro Castillo’s failed self-coup (2021-22), protests have claimed 70 lives.
This week, the president denied avoiding or deferring statements to the public prosecutor in the context of this investigation and indicated that “she is waiting for a response to exercise her right of defense”.