The Minister of the Interior (Mininter), Vincent Romero, considered that the march called “La Toma de Lima”, held last Thursday, was a “failure”. In this sense, he highlighted the work carried out by the National Police to contain the demonstrations that demand, among others, the resignation of the president Dina Boluarte.
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“In particular, I believe that the The taking of Lima has been a failure for them”, highlighted Romero in dialogue with Panorama. “There is information that there will be new demonstrations, but you will see that the Police have done an exceptional job in these days of protests and they deserve to be recognized for their work,” he said.
For the head of the Mininter, there are “three groups” that converge in the mobilizations, which began in December 2022 after boluarte He came to the Presidency before the attempted coup by Pedro Castillo, currently incarcerated in the Barbadillo prison.
“There are three groups that appear in this type of protest. The first group, for me, are the violent. There is a second group that is vulnerable people. Who are the vulnerable people? For example, people who have been to San Marcos and other places that have come from the provinces for this event. So many of them are taken advantage of by these violent actors,” he explained.
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“The other group is us, the citizens, who walk the streets, who have nothing to do with the protest or with the violent group,” he added in his theory.
at another time, Vincent Romero He assured that “there is progress” on the identification of people who incite violence in protests. The minister assured that until today, the attack on nine police stations in the country has been recorded. “(The harassers) are in the process of investigation and those responsible will soon be found,” he said.
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