Between tears, Lilia Paredes insists that Pedro Castillo is a political prisoner

The former first lady, lilia paredesappeared in a videoconference from Mexico, to express his concern about the situation that former President Pedro Castillo has been going through, who has been preventively detained in the Barbadillo Prison, since December 7, 2022 after attempting a coup.

Visibly affected, Paredes assures that her husband is a “political prisoner” and denied that he had committed an act of rebellion, which is why he is under prosecutor’s investigation.

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“He is unjustly imprisoned. And I want to tell the whole of Peru the last thing I talked about with my husband. He told me: ‘they will slander me, they will defame me, but I will never betray my people.’ Those were his last words, then I said to him: ‘what can we do?’ And he replied: ‘Come on, I’m leaving you at the Mexican embassy, I’m going back and I’m going to fight together with all my Peruvian people.’he said through tears.

In this way, the former first lady confirms that her husband was going to the Mexican embassy after having perpetrated his failed coup, but that he intended to “return to fight alongside his people.”

As is known, Lilia Paredes managed to travel with her children to Mexico, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered her asylum. “I thank the Mexican people and the President of Mexico, who welcomed us. Thank you so much. (…) Because of that, they expelled the ambassador here from Mexico, from Peru”he added.

Lilia Paredes also spoke about her younger sister, Yenifer Paredes, who is being investigated for the Anguía Case and asked the Human Rights Committee to support her with her legal situation. “It is a pain that I went through, two and a half months that my eldest daughter, Yenifer, was without me (due to a judicial order of preventive detention). (…) But who to ask for help if no one helps us?indicated the former first lady.

CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION

The Public Ministry asked the Judiciary for preventive detention for 36 months lilia paredeswife of coup president Pedro Castillo, and his brothers Walter Enrique Paredes Navarro and David Alfonso Paredes Navarro.

All of them, it is recalled, are syndicated as members of a criminal organization headed by the former president, the same one that would have operated from the Government Palace and that had public officials, former state ministers and congressmen in its structure, according to tax information.