Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo maintained that the country’s president, Dina Boluarte, the attorney general, Patricia Benavides, and the head of Congress, José Williams, are behind a “Machiavellian plan” against him.
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Through a letter delivered by Castillo to congressman Guillermo Bermejo during his visit to the former president at the headquarters of the Directorate of Special Operations (Diroes), where he remains detained, he denounced that “a group of camouflaged doctors and a faceless prosecutor” they tried to take a sample of his blood without his consent.
“Likewise, today they returned with the same thing for having denied me for security and my integrity,” reads the letter from former President Castillo.
“I do not rule out that this Machiavellian plan is led by the National Prosecutor, the President of Congress, and Mrs. Dina Boluarte”, concludes the handwritten letter from Pedro Castillo.
For his part, parliamentarian Guido Bellido said through his Twitter account that no intervention can be carried out on the former president without the presence of his legal team and a doctor to guarantee his physical integrity.
No intervention to prof. Pedro Castillo can be done without the presence of his lawyers and a personal doctor who guarantee his physical integrity. pic.twitter.com/jLYpqJukFZ
— Guido Bellido Ugarte (@GuidoBellidoU)
December 11, 2022
One day after Pedro Castillo’s vacancy was approved by the plenary session of Congress, with an opposition majority, the Peruvian justice system ordered seven days of preliminary detention for the alleged crimes of rebellion and conspiracy.
Former Peruvian Prime Minister Aníbal Torres announced on Saturday the decision to go into hiding after assuring that the country’s Attorney General, Patricia Benavides, has denounced him for alleged rebellion, within the framework of an investigation that is ongoing against former President Pedro Castillo, for have attempted to dissolve Congress.
The National Prosecutor for no reason has denounced me for being part of an org. Criminal and disturbance of justice. She Now she does it for Rebellion and other crimes, just for hearing the presidential message. She Says that the prosecutors are political operators. Given this she went into hiding.
— Aníbal Torres V. (@anibaltorresv)
December 10, 2022
Despite the call for calm and tranquility by the Head of State, thousands of people have mobilized and staged protests in the main cities of the country to demand early elections and the closure of Congress.
Organizations and social movements and defenders of human rights have denounced the police repression and the arbitrary detention of several citizens by police officers in civilian clothes in the Peruvian capital.