PNP Inspectorate acquitted 11 officers investigated for the death of Inti and Bryan

The 11 officers whom the General Inspectorate of the General Police was investigating for alleged responsibility for the death of the young Inti Sotelo and Bryan Pintado, during the protests of November 14, 2020 against the Manuel Merino regime, were completely acquitted of the charges. charges against them.

According to the report of the inspector general, Lieutenant General PNP Segundo Mejía Montenegro, who was in charge of the case and questioned the defendants, found no evidence to show that the 11 officers committed the serious offenses against the police service that were attributed to them.

Among those acquitted is the former PNP Deputy Commander General PNP Lieutenant General (r) Jorge Lam Almonte, who ordered the preparation of the Operations Plan that was executed the day that Inti Sotelo and Bryan died from the effect of projectiles fired by police officers, according to with the report of the PNP Inspector General to which La República had access.

Lieutenant General Jorge Lam was being investigated for a serious offense against the police service (G-38), “failing to fulfill the mission or breaching the assigned functional responsibility, due to negligence, improvidence or lack of initiative.”

The former head of the Seventh Lima Police Region, General PNP (r) Jorge Cayas Medina, who was in charge of executing the Operations Plan to suppress the demonstrations in downtown Lima and was facing three serious charges, was also released from responsibility.