Injustice. Families of the leaders of the Front for the Defense of the Peoples of Ayacucho denounce irregularities in the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office.
Five days after finishing the last public audience evaluation of the request for preventive detention, the national preparatory investigation judge Raúl Justiniano Romero will resolve the legal situation of the seven leaders of the Front for the Defense of the Peoples of Ayacucho.
Gone is the time in which national judges resolved until dawn to make an immediate decision, after the detainees have spoken, in order to guarantee the principle of immediacy, of contact between the judge and the people to whom justice is administered.
Meanwhile, community leaders Rocío Leandro Melgar, Alejandro Manay Pillaca, Piero Giles Gamboa, Estefany Alanya Chumbes, Yulisa Gómez Ayala, Fernando Quinto Cuba and Alex Gómez Falcón They continue with preliminary detention since February 12.
The relatives and lawyers of the seven community leaders offered a press conference yesterday to publicize the various irregularities in the investigation and the constant “terruqueo” of the prosecutors.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office requests that they be placed in pretrial detention for allegedly belonging to an organization generated from Sendero Luminoso. “The only evidence that is presented is their participation in seminars and conversations, organized by foreign universities, where the new Constitution and constituent assembly are discussed.“, says the lawyer Alipio Doller Huamán.
He pointed out that when they were arrested they were taken to a military barracks and then transferred to Lima, and they were only able to contact a lawyer 20 hours later.being presented as terrorists.
Likewise, recalled that Fredepa is a legal and social organization with thousands of members, which was born in 1966, long before the existence of Sendero Luminoso. “There is not a single indication of terrorism,” the lawyer stressed.
“We ask for an end to police arbitrariness”
“There is a dehumanization and constant ‘terruqueo’ in this investigation, which affects all the families of the detainees, by accusing them and presenting them without any proof of being terrorists,” said the lawyer. indira rodriguez.
He noted that Estefani Alanya was hit in the stomach during her detention and remains bleeding, without receiving specialized medical attention..
“She doesn’t even know why she is being detained, just for being a town leader,” said Félix Gómez, father of nurse Yulisa Gómez.
“I ask the authorities to reflect on this arbitrariness, which truncates their expectations and their state of health; he suffered a heart attack when he was arrested,” said the mother of Piero Giles.
Defending
Money. Cirilo Jara’s defense pointed out that this rondero was arrested with 2,300 soles in his wallet and a list that he had distributed 4,000 soles to members of his community. An amount that is not huge, as stated by the prosecution.
