The dismantling of the Special Prosecutors Team for Cases with Victims during Social Protests (Eficavip), which saw deaths due to the repression of the demonstrations against Dina Boluarte and Congress, will put at risk the investigations that have already been going on for three years, and with it will affect the relatives’ hopes for justice, warned lawyer Henry Mercado, from Paz y Esperanza.which – along with other human rights organizations – judicially accompanies some cases in Ayacucho and Juliaca.
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He explained that the resolution signed by the acting prosecutor of the Nation and investigated for the Cuellos Blancos del Puerto case, Tomás Gálvez, indicates that the cases are going to be redistributed, but does not make clear what the criteria will be. If it will be due to territoriality or function. The decision will be made by the coordinating prosecutor.
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He maintained that nothing guarantees that, for example, the investigations into the 10 deaths during the repression in Huamanga on December 15, 2022, which were in charge of prosecutor Mirela Coronel at Eficavip, will return to the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office that is on duty this month in Ayacucho.
He stressed that, in any case, it should be guaranteed that the same prosecutors who have been viewing the files continue to be in charge despite the deactivation of the team, because otherwise the new prosecutors who take charge will practically start from scratch and the line of investigation that prosecutor Coronel has advanced since March 2023 to date could be lost.
“There is concern that the prosecutor’s offices, where the investigations into the deaths in the protests will reach, are now going to expand their powers and, in addition to these complex cases, they will continue to be in charge of investigations into crimes that occurred during the internal armed conflict, which will imply an overload that, considering their budgetary limitations, they will hardly be able to bear,” said the lawyer.
