Confirming that it is a crime to fill a road with stones, sticks, and burned tires to interrupt vehicular traffic, harming thousands of people, 27 subjects were sentenced for the Power of attorney of Ica for these acts of vandalism recorded on the roads of this region during the protests against the government.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes Against Public Order managed to get a magistrate to impose a conviction against these extremists for the crime of hindering the operation of public services.
Those sentenced were fully identified as participating in the continuous road seizures in this region, an illegal action that was normalized as a protest measure and that was replicated in different roads of the country, since the crisis broke out, after the failed coup d’état in Pedro Castillo Terrones, which occurred exactly two months ago.
The 27 vandals, who were able to block roads, but not their guilt before the courts, received sentences of more than three years, although their crimes will not be paid with effective imprisonment, since they accepted early termination. In addition, they must pay civil reparations for more than 50 thousand soles.
riots are paid
The Attorney General’s Office also managed to another 22 vandals, investigated for riots, attacks on citizens, the Police and public institutions, robberies in commercial establishments and other acts of violence registered in Puno, Ucayali, Ica, Cusco and Arequipa, receive preventive detention, between one and 18 months, while they are processed.
Among those who are serving a nine-month preventive confinement in a Cusco prison are four vandals who last week stoned public transport buses, commercial premises and public institutions in the center of the city.
The defendants were arrested, recognized as the perpetrators of the attacks and could receive up to eight years in effective prison.
In Ica, they are also serving preventive prison, for one month. two violent activists who were caught throwing Molotov cocktails during clashes over the blockades at kilometer 298 of the Panamericana Sur highway, in Ica.
In this region, another eight people are being investigated for the crime of riots, while they are serving prison time in the Cachiche prison.
During the protests that began last December, lhe Public Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes Against Public Order has been carrying out preventive work in the different cities of the country affected by violence.
