“At no time did I want to escape. I was going to return,” said the former president when explaining his transfer to the Mexican embassy after carrying out a coup.
He denied. The ex-president Pedro Castillo denied that it existed an escape plan to Mexico after giving an attempted coup d’état during his message to the nation on December 7, 2022. In an interview published by El Salto de España, from the Barbadillo prison, Castillo rejected the versions that he “was escaping” from the country.
“I was going to leave my family at the Mexico’s embassy, Everything went very fast. It was my decision. No one else’s. He was nervous, but I did it,” he said. Castillo Terrones, who is serving a preventive detention order against him for alleged rebellion and, alternatively, conspiracy.
Next, he mentioned that he was “very confused” after carrying out the coup from the presidential office and that “the first thing he thought of was his family.”
“I went to drop them off at the Mexican embassy, I never wanted to run away. I was going to return. I wanted to save my family. We took the ‘Cofre’ car from the Palace and we were on the road when the same police stopped us”, said the former head of state.
In that sense, Castle He pointed out that the police detention a few meters from the Mexican embassy “was very traumatic and violent for his children.” “I felt very confused, I no longer thought like the president, I only thought like the father of a family,” he added.
Pedro Castillo: “The prosecutor was not in my arrest”
at another time, Pedro Castillo assured that the head of the Public Ministry, Patricia Benavideswas not present at the time of his arrest and blamed Colonel PNP Harvey Quilted of having provoked “a violent attitude”.
“There was no legal process as a Peruvian with rights and even less as a president because he was still president and I am still president,” he said.
