An activity of mayor of Lima, Rafael Lopez Aliagaon Unión Avenue in the Santa María sector in the highest part of the district of Villa Maria del Triunfo was suspended this Friday after agents of the National Police of Peru They intervened on a man of approximately 30 years of age who was allegedly armed among the attendees.
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According to the preliminary version of a La agent Criminal Investigation Division (Depincri) from VMT, The subject would have expressed his intention to attack the mayor during the event, for which he was subdued and identified by police personnel. In addition, it was preliminarily reported that there would be two people involved in the incident. One of them was subdued—the same one that appears in the images released—while the other managed to escape and is being sought by the authorities.
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The mayor of Lima had to be interrupted when he was giving his speech and was immediately taken off the stage to safety. Meanwhile, the police officers had the subject reduced to the ground. The Rapid Intervention Company (Cía. Nueva Esperanza) currently has the detainee in custody. No shots or injuries were reported during the intervention.
Despite the attempted attack, the mayor continues with his activities normally. At this time, he supervises the progress of the new Juan Pablo II expressway, located in the district of San Juan de Mirafloresaccording to his press team.
MML statement: armed subject tried to shoot him, according to the PNP
An armed man tried to assassinate the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, during a municipal activity in Villa María del Triunfo. The subject, who was carrying a loaded revolver and was addressing the mayor, was subdued in time by members of the National Police of Peru, which forced the event to be suspended and the mayor of the area to be evacuated.
“The seriousness of the threat forced an immediate evacuation of the mayor and the total suspension of the activity, generating consternation, repudiation and indignation among the neighbors who witnessed the events,” says the statement issued by the Municipality of Lima on Friday night.
The metropolitan commune condemned the attack and announced that the aggressor will be criminally denounced for attempted murder. In addition, he demanded a “ruthless” investigation and exemplary sanctions for all those involved.
Prosecutor’s Office qualifies Rafael López Aliaga’s phrase “we have to kill him” as instigation to murder
The Prosecutor’s Office has determined that the statements of the mayor of Lima, Rafael Lopez Aliagain which he stated “the gentleman must be put to rest once and for all” referring to the journalist Gustavo Gorriti, They constitute instigation to murder.
Prosecutor Roldán Soto Salazar, of the First Crime Prevention Prosecutor’s Office, pointed out that López Aliaga has “the status of instigator” of homicide to the detriment of Gorriti and that his statements imply an “effective risk” that the crime will be committed.
Furthermore, Soto Salazar warned that the mayor’s threat could be interpreted by third parties as a call to attack the life of the director of IDL-Reporteros. This information is contained in the document “Fiscal diagnosis of the situation and preventive action plan” of September 26.
On September 9, during a municipal event, Lopez Aliaga He expressed that “an urban land that is an enemy, that is a military objective, has to have a military court. We are already in that phase, if it goes to a Gorriti tax court it will come out immediately. We are bad there. But I say, we are putting the dots over the i’s. Military court, what is the fear? Gorriti? Please, we must put the gentleman to rest once and for all.”
These statements have generated concern in various journalistic organizations. The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) strongly repudiated the threats made by the mayor of Lima against Gustavo Gorriti, describing them as a serious attack against freedom of the press in the country.
