The peaceful protest carried out today Thursday by different unions that mobilized from the districts of Tacna towards the Paseo Cívico was marred by acts of vandalism carried out by groups of young people in different sectors. On Bolognesi avenue, protesters attacked a taxi driver for the simple fact of working during the strike. The driver had to back up and then accelerate to get away, but not before receiving blows to his unit.
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At 7 a.m., when everything indicated that it would be a peaceful strike, as the National Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) had announced, mobs that wanted to take advantage of the situation began to burn tires in the Tarapacá oval, outside the shopping center Polvos Rosados, on the corner of Patricio Meléndez and Industrial avenues, on Jorge Basadre avenue and on the access roads to the Gregorio Albarracín district.
patrol car was affected
A mob broke the window of a patrol car outside the central police station. Police officers intervened in the afternoon with a group of vandals who were threatening drivers on Hipólito Unanue avenue, near the Modesto Basadre school. An identity check was carried out on them, but one of the youths was reluctant to identify himself, so he was transferred to the Central Police Station.
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Dozens of people arrived at the scene to try to rescue him, achieving their mission. When the mob dispersed, it was noticed that a Nissan Tiida model patrol car had a dented and cracked front windshield. Urban transport bus drivers as well as taxi drivers also denounced the breaking of their windshields for being circulating using their right to work and not joining the strike.
