Prosecutor's Office asks for 21 years in prison for terrorists who indoctrinated children

The second office of the Criminal Prosecutor’s Office specialized in terrorism and related crimes supported his accusation against seven members of the organization ‘Transforming Will’linked to Shining path and requested 21 years and eight months of effective prison against each. This group would have operated in Trujillo indoctrinating minors between 2018 and 2023.

Meeting between Pål Jonson and the Peruvian Ministers of Defense and Foreign Relations occurred in the midst of evaluations for the purchase of 24 FAP fighters for the FAP.

In October 2023, Peru21 revealed that an NGO provided “help” to a group of minors with the hidden objective of indoctrinating them with “Gonzalo thought.” Videos where children could be observed marching and haranging in favor of the Shining Path.

“Red flags, hoces and hammers, on the way they will mark. And the game fighting and failing again fighting the triumph will achieve Marxism, Leninism, Maoism! Gonzalo Thought!”, They were forced to say.

According to the fiscal requirement, citizens Juan Santos, José Orbegoso, Lucio Orbegoso, Angelita Cerna, Flor Orbegoso, José Orbegoso and Erika Namoc, said condemnation for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization.

According to the provincial deputy prosecutor Pablo Espinoza Vásquez “each of the investigated would be part of an active detachment of the Shining Path in La Libertad. This group, led by Santos, operated through the clandestine school ‘Semillitas en Action’, from where the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Conpersement Gonzalo with allusive images to the Luminate path would have been taught.

The operations center of this hiking group was a place, located in the El Milagro sector, in the Huanchaco district, where as a facade it offers ‘Podal reflexotherapy’, in addition to massages and psychology services. The poster carries the symbol of transformative will. From there they have planned operations in districts such as Chicama (Ascope), El Porvenir (Trujillo) and La Esperanza (Trujillo), in the La Libertad region.

After an arduous intelligence work, personnel from the Directorate against Terrorism of the PNP during the early hours of today the operation transformation 2023 was executed where the members of the body called Transforming Will were captured. This group was headed by an release of the Shining Path that responds to the name of Juan Santos Romero.

The leader

The story of this 52 -year -old subject dates back to the populated center of Chuquibamba, Cajamarca, where Juan Santos Romero, aka ‘JJ’, served as a logistics command of the base force of the Shining Path. All this in 1994, two years after the fall of Abimael Guzmán.

Santos has been imprisoned twice, always for the same crime: terrorism.

The first time that the Cajamarquino entered the prison was in May 1994. After entry to the Picsi-Chiclayo prison, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Special Chamber for Faceless Judges.

Years later he was admitted to the Huacariz Penitentiary Center in Cajamarca, where he remained a year, until July 2006. Identified by the Police as the Secretary of Propaganda of the Shining Path, ‘JJ’ was one of the 76 adherents of the Provincial Committee of Movadef, formed in Trujillo, La Libertad.

Only one year later, in 2007, Santos Romero was captured by the Division against Terrorism (Divcote) of Trujillo as a possible terrorist leader of the Shining Path. But he was released a few days later, since the 8 requisitions for terrorism against him were not in force.

Loose in Plaza, in recent years, Juan Santos Romero has been in command of transformative will, through which he has indoctrinating children, women and men. Exalting Gonzalo thought, already leaders such as Elena Iparraguirre, ‘JJ’ has managed to warn girls who were rescued by the authorities yesterday.