The subcommittee for constitutional accusations of the Peruvian Congress decided to archive this Friday complaint filed against President Dina Boluarte and various ministers and former ministers, for the deaths of protesters in clashes with the police during anti-government protests.
The decision on declaring the complaint inadmissible and therefore its submission, 11 parliamentarians voted for him, 5 against and 3 abstained. Left-wing parliamentarian Ruth Luque filed a lawsuit.
Also tried to accuse the former president of the Council of Ministers, Pedro Angulo; according to former Minister of the Interior César Cervantes; former Minister of Defense and current Chief of General Staff Alberto Otárolaas well as to former Minister of Justice, José Tello.
Luque is in his lawsuit believes that all of them committed a violation of the Constitutionwith regard to his powers “in the highest spheres of decision-making in matters of the use of police and military forces”.
Subcommittee members They considered the complaint inadmissiblesince “he did not meet the criteria related to ‘referring to facts that represent a violation of the constitution and/or criminal acts of duty provided for by the criminal law'”.
In addition, it is pointed out that one of the complainants is “assuming letter C of Article 89 of the Rules of the Congress“.
The said article claims that it should be considered “whether or not the reported person corresponds to the functional prerogative of the preliminary hearingthat is, whether it is in force or not”.
In the protests that broke out after the failed coup by former president Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022. 49 people died in direct clashes with the police.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) he condemned in his latest report, published this Wednesday, the police violence recorded in Peru during these demonstrations, and assured that he had found cases of “extrajudicial executions”, going so far as to consider the situation to be considered a “massacre”.
Source: Panama America
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