The Judiciary scheduled a hearing on Thursday, March 2 in order to evaluate the request of the State Attorney General’s Office (PGE) to annul the fiscal interrogation carried out on the premier Alberto Otárola for the deaths registered during the violent protests between December 2022 and January of this year.
Prosecutor Daniel Soria’s argument is that the Public Ministry did not summon him to participate in the proceeding carried out on February 16 last.
The Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation will hold this March 2, at 11:00 am, a hearing for the protection of rights requested by the State Attorney General’s Office, in an investigation against the President of the Republic, #DinaBoluarteand others for alleged crime of #genocide. pic.twitter.com/d8N8zvkQeh
– Judicial Power Peru (@Poder_Judicial_) February 24, 2023
The PGE is part of the criminal process to evaluate some civil reparation, since high public officials are the ones who were denounced for the crimes of genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries. In this case, President Dina Boluarte is also being investigated.
Peru21 He learned that the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, did summon Soria for the first taking of Otárola’s statement, which was on January 23, but she no longer did so for this second date.
Prosecutor sources told this newspaper that there would be no pronouncement from the Prosecutor’s Office and that the allegations will be exposed during the hearing called by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley.
According to figures from the Ombudsman’s Office, 57 people died as a result of violent clashes between protesters and the National Police that occurred after the coup d’état by Pedro Castillo, on December 7, 2022. One of the deceased was the policeman José Soncco Quispe.
