During the inauguration of The still unfinished megaobra via express souththe mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliagahe provided a press conference, in which he attacked the journalist Gustavo Gorriti and threatened him with death using slang of the Peruvian underworld. “You have to load it at once to the gentleman“He said, indicating that Gorriti would be an obstacle to implement a military court in Peru. “An urban terroch is military objective, a military court must have a Gorritian tax court, it goes out to touch,” he added.
After making his threat public, he said that the implementation of military courts in the country would solve the crime problem. This despite the fact that various reports from the Ombudsman and Inter -American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) They have shown that these courts would lack independence and impartiality, in addition to the risk of impunity in favor of politicians, military and PNP.
The death threat was not the only time he went to the journalist. In the same event, López Aliaga linked Gorriti with former mayor Susana Villarán, who faces a trial for alleged illegal contributions from Brazilian construction companies Odebrecht and OAS. “He is his partner (Gorriti) and both make up a set of corrupt people who have taught with Peru,” said the mayor of Lima without showing evidence to support his statement.
Rosa María Palacios points out that the Prosecutor’s Office must investigate
The journalist Rosa María Palacios used her X account to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office act before the statements of the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, addressed to the journalist Gustavo Gorriti. In one of his messages, Palacios shared a post in which López Aliaga said: “You have to load it once to the gentleman”, qualifying Gorriti as “an urban terruco” and pointing out that he should be tried by a military court.
Palacios accompanied the publication with the comment: “Death sentence orders. I am not surprised anything.” Subsequently, in another tweet, he wrote: “Rafael López Aliaga. Mayor of Lima, threat of death to Gustavo Gorriti. I leave this here in case there is any interested prosecutor,” emphasizing the seriousness of the statements and the need for formal investigation.
Gorriti defends himself
During a past interview for the Epicenter TV portal, the journalist indicated that López Aliaga’s speeches are loaded with misinformation. “The guy repeats, repeats that kind of unbridled mantras, but more than a mantra seems like a psychotic exercise. Behind all this there is a logic, that of misinformation,” he supported.
The statements of the mayor of Lima occurs after the IACHR granted precautionary measures to Gorriti after considering that he is in a risk situation. Since 2019, the journalist has been the target of threats, harassment and campaigns that have stigmatized him under the term “Terruco”.
