The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) is summoned to testify before the Prosecutor’s Office next Thursday in the context of the investigation into the death of the young journalist Melisa Alfaro, who died in October 1991 due to the explosion of an envelope bomb.
The start of the virtual oral trial for this case is scheduled for Thursday, when Fujimori will testify in the Third Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor’s Office of Lima, where it will be determined whether a criminal investigation will be opened as the direct perpetrator of the journalist’s death, the relatives of Fujimori reported. the victim through a statement to which Efe had access.
Also accused in this process are, among others, the former military officer Víctor Penas as the alleged direct perpetrator of the attack and the former presidential adviser Vladimiro Montesinos as the alleged indirect perpetrator, who is serving, like Fujimori, a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
“Decades later, the fight to achieve justice has not ceased for the parents and brothers (of Alfaro), who firmly insist that a judicial investigation be opened against Alberto Fujimori and an effective and timely sanction be executed for him, Vladimiro Montesinos and all those investigated,” the journalist’s relatives pointed out in the note.
In addition, they announced for Thursday a symbolic action in front of the Criminal Court of Lima “to assume a vigilant role and demand that the magistrates, in the development of the oral trial and fiscal investigation, prevail the right to justice of the victim and his relatives”.
“That the oral trial be conducted with transparency and that the sanction for the murder of the journalist not continue to be prolonged for more years,” they demanded after recalling that Alfaro’s parents and brothers waited more than 30 years “so that the political and material authors be seated on the bench of the accused and answer before a court of law for the murder of the young woman».
In October 1991, Alfaro was 23 years old and head of news for the weekly Change, a medium that questioned on several occasions the management of the Fujimori government.
On the 10th of that month, at her workplace, the young woman received an envelope that was addressed to the director of the outlet and contained 200 grams of ambo-gelatin, an explosive material that detonated and caused her death.
