He interior minister, Juan José Santiváñezannounced that his ministry is organizing a peace march to confront the wave of crime in the city. According to his statement, both the Mininter and the National Police of Peru (PNP) will participate in the demonstration. Different workers associations will be added to this group.
“We are structuring a march for peace, where not only all the associations will participate, but even the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police. A march for peace so that all organizations, all of us, commit ourselves to this fight against crime,” he said.
To support his idea, the head of the Ministry He reported that he has met with associations of transporters, bikers, winemakers, bakers, among other unions, as well as some congressmen.
The Santiváñez proposal is minuscule in the face of the more than 14,000 complaints of extortion reported so far in 2024 alone and, above all, in the face of a reality that overflows: the transporters strike held last September 26 paralyzed the entire capital. Schools, universities and workplaces had to suspend their work or establish a virtual modality when they saw that people could not mobilize.
An Interior Minister who tries to stop crime with a march for peace and a president who justifies criminals
In this framework, and in the face of a new transportation strike scheduled for October 3, the proposal of the interior minister alert for not being the only one of its kind. Just 24 hours before, the head of state had tried to justify the criminals by saying that these They did it “probably” because they didn’t have a job..
“We are working on crime prevention, that is why we generate recreational spaces, that is why we are opening spaces that were abandoned there, but we are also generating job banks because those who commit crimes do not have an income, surely, although Others already do it, God knows, out of ambition or because they have the blood of the hitman in their blood,” he exclaimed during an event in Piura.
Likewise, related to the issue of crime, the president took advantage of her speech to indirectly blame the “operators” for promoting crime among citizens.
“The lies and misinformation that we see daily from their operators only empower the criminals that we are going to defeat. We are going to hit them with the full force of the law and they will be there, where they belong, after the bars,” he said.
