In the midst of the chaos that exists in this region due to the shortage of fuel and products due to the blockades in the interoceanica thousand vandals attacked the home of the regional governor of Madre de Dios, Luis Otsuka Salazar, and tried to burn it down.
The violentists threw stones at the house of the authority, who was inside with his family at the time of the attack. The mob reacted against Otsuka in retaliation for the meeting he held on Thursday with Prime Minister Alberto Otárola, during his visit to this region
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In view of the fact that the stones did not stop falling at his home, located in Puerto Maldonado and that the police officers who were guarding his home were not armed and only fired tear gas, the governor fired shots into the air to defend his property and disperse the violent.
“Next time they come, I’m going to kill them,” Otsuka yelled after firing the shots.
After the meeting with the governor, the premier indicated that he had found the region calm.
“They wanted to burn down my house. If I didn’t have a weapon to defend myself, they would have succeeded,” said the authority to channel N.