They were the harshest images of the police intervention in the University City. Petty officer PNP is observed Yannina Zuta Ventura mistreating and denigrating the Huancavelican peasant Yolanda Enriquez Vargas, who was face down together with other detainees. The woman he claimed in Quechua when Zuta searched his belongings without his consent.
“Shut! Shut! I’m telling you to shut up!” Policewoman Yannina Zuta yelled threateningly at Yolanda Enríquez as she snatched her cell phone. Enríquez did not understand why the police had confiscated his phone: “No, I’m not going to keep it!” Petty officer Zuta yelled at him again. She did the same with another farmer, according to the record of the “Latina news” camera. But the second victim could not be identified.
Police sources informed The Republic that Police Inspectorate General beginning an administrative disciplinary investigation against agent Yannina Zuta Ventura to determine if the conduct you exhibited during the assault on the city of san marcos to the detriment of Yolanda Enríquez Vargas violates the internal regulations of the police institution and if the degrading mistreatment disseminated by the media and social networks affects the image of the integrity of the Police.
The protagonists of the incident are the non-commissioned officer PNP Yannina Zuta Ventura, 43 from Lima years, resident in Los Olivos; and the peasant Yolanda Enriquez Ventura, 57 years old, native of the district of Yauli, where he also resides, in the Huancavelica region. She has no education and is a Quechua speaker. The episode depicted the moment of tension between Lima and provincial citizens in the context of the political crisis.
The Republic contacted the petty officer PNP Giannina Zuta Ventura and asked him for his version of what happened with Yolanda Enriquez; but did not answer. She was insisted on the subject. He didn’t answer either.
However, Yolanda Enriquez He recounted in Quechua the details of the actions of the police officer Giannina Zuta, who began to flutter his belongings and kept his cell phone. She offered her version after being released from the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dirincri)on Spain Avenue.
“We were eating what all the companions have brought. We were having breakfast, then we were going to bathe. Then they threw the (tear) bombs and broke down the door. Daddy, they totally broke the door. ‘Now, damn it!’, the police officers shouted, pointing their pistols at us. They rounded us all up and threw us to the ground. Then they tied our hands behind us. They framed us”, recounted Yolanda Enríquez.
The woman expressed displeasure that the first police officers who broke into the University City They uttered discriminatory insults when they noticed that there were several provincials in their traditional clothing. And they treated them “terrorists”.
“They were going to kick me. When she complained, they told me: ‘Shut up, shitty chola!’ They have fucked me what they wanted. I have been insulted enough. Our other compañeras have been left green in various parts of their bodies from kicking,” said Yolanda Enríquez.
His story coincides with the various film recordings that have circulated on social networks and that record the police abuses against the detainees, perpetrated with the justification of their provincial appearance.
In addition to Yolanda Enriquezthe petty officer Giannina Zuta had a second victim, who has not been identified. It is a young peasant girl who appears in the images with a pink sweater and a green skirt. Despite being reduced, Zuta offends her verbally and rips off her cell phone.
Yannina Zuta Ventura is a non-commissioned officer who has gone through several detachments. In 2020 he worked in the Aggravated Robbery Investigation Department at banking, financial and commercial entities of the National Directorate of Criminalistics (Dirincri)
During an investigation into a criminal network operated by bad policemen who mounted false operations to extort businessmen and ask them for a monthly quota in exchange for protection in the Gamarra jirón and in the Cercado de Lima, Petty Officer Zuta was mentioned. On this issue, the police did respond. She claimed that she was part of the case, but as a witness.
