The Minister of the Interior, Dimitri Senmachewent last night to the plenary session of Congress to try to answer for the escape of the former minister John Silva, presidential friend and investigated by criminal organization. However, he did not convince and now the possibility of censorship opens up.
During his presentation – in which the case of the informal miners killed in Arequipa was also addressed – Senmache hid behind legalism to justify the obvious omissions within the Police and the Intelligence services, which allowed Silva to become smoke.
He insisted, for example, that the video surveillance measure, ordered by the National Prosecutor’s Office on May 27, did not contemplate at any time tracking Silva.
“The Police cannot follow up because that would be adjustment,” he stressed, as he had already done in two parliamentary commissions and in interviews.
This has been repeatedly denied by former Police and Armed Forces officers. Peru21 It also reported that Report No. 307-2022-Dircocor itself acknowledges that on June 1, when Silva gave an interview, officers carried out “monitoring.” The truth is that they escaped by a red light.
The video surveillance tax provision itself also required a report of Silva’s “displacements.”
“I read the provision and at no time do I find that there is an express indication of the follow-up measure. And it is not that one wants to be totally purist or legalistic, but there are different totally express provisions throughout 2021 and 2022, ”said Senmache.
The minister also did not miss the opportunity to question and try to blame the Attorney General’s Office.
Senmache announced before the Plenary that so far nine raids have been carried out, “two of them by the Reward System.” “Currently there are at least three or four homes that are being studied,” he said.
But the escape of the presidential friend has a political cost. Inside Congress, Renovación Popular has already been cooking a motion of censure against the Minister of the Interior, the fifth in eleven months of management.
Legislator José Cueto (RP) remarked that, in his opinion, Senmache has lied to Congress and public opinion. “He has tried to blame the Public Ministry, when that is a lie,” he told Peru21.
“For them, video surveillance does not mean monitoring, when for all aspects of Intelligence around the world, an OVISE (observation, surveillance and monitoring) implies all of this. They are trying to deceive,” added Cueto.
The motion of censure requires 33 signatures to be formalized. The Fuerza Popular bench announced last night that it will also go this way.
KEEP IN MIND:
- Congresswoman Patricia Chirinos (Avanza País) yesterday filed a constitutional complaint against Senmache for Silva’s escape.
- In the document, submitted to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations, he requests his dismissal and disqualification from public office for ten years.
- “The conditions have been created” so that Silva “can evade justice,” he warns.
