A few hours after issuing the speech in which he announced an unconstitutional closure of Congress, the former President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo Terronesand his family left the Government Palace and got into two vehicles at their disposal in an apparently unknown direction.
According to the weekly Hildebrandt in his thirteenwhen the vehicles transported Castillohis family and the ex-president Aníbal Torres were at the intersection of Tacna and Nicolás de Piérola avenues, the non-commissioned officer Nilo Irigoín Chávez, security of the ex-president would have ordered the driver of the car, the non-commissioned officer Joseph Grández López, to go to the Mexican Embassy in San Isidro.
Grández reportedly notified Major PNP Luis Alarcón, the president’s chief of bodyguards, of what had happened, and he informed his bosses. At around 1:40 p.m., General PNP Iván Lizetti Salazar, director of State Security, ordered that Pedro Castillo be intervened for the alleged crime of rebellion and being in flagrante.
The weekly also notes that the driver of Castillo received the order to take the former president to the Prefecture of Lima. The driver would have led Castillo to believe that he would change routes to avoid traffic. Finally, the vehicles were seized by armed police near the intersection of Garcilaso de la Vega and España avenues, still in downtown Lima, and were redirected to the Prefecture headquarters, located on España avenue.
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The first thing Castillo did during his detention at the Prefecture was “advocate for the safety of his wife,” Lilia Paredes Navarro, and their children, the weekly reports.
“At the time of reading his rights as a detainee, Castillo made a single request to the authorities: that they allow his relatives to return without problems to his home in Chugur, in Chota, cajamarca”, they add and add that they told the former president that his spouse had no arrest warrant against him at the moment.
Castillo “looked out of place, as if he thought that what was happening to him was the product of a bad dream, an illusion,” said one of the members of the Special Team of the National Police who participated in the arrest proceedings, according to a quote. the weekly.
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On Thursday, the Judiciary ordered the measure of preliminary detention for a period of seven days against Pedro Castillo. “Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigationby the judge Juan Carlos Checkley, provides seven days of preliminary detention against former president Pedro Castilloinvestigated for the crime of rebellion (alternatively conspiracy)”, reported this State Power through its official Twitter account.
In the resolution, the magistrate provides that the term of judicial detention It is valid from December 7 to 13 of 2022. In this way, the Judicial Power ratified the request made by the Public Ministry to order the preliminary detention for the alleged commission of the crime against the Powers of the State and constitutional order, in the modality of rebellion, to the detriment of the State .
In addition, by the commission of the crime of conspiracy against the Stateboth illicit are provided for and punished in articles 346 and 349 of the Penal Code.
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