Lima, (EFE)
As well as against various ministers and former ministers, for the death of protesters in clashes with law enforcement during anti-government protests.
The decision to declare the complaint inadmissible and, therefore, to file it, had the vote of 11 parliamentarians in favor, 5 against and 3 abstentions.
Left-wing parliamentarian Ruth Luque had filed the complaint.
And he also sought to accuse the former president of the Council of Ministers, Pedro Angulo; the former Minister of the Interior, César Cervantes, former Minister of Defense and current Chief of Staff, Alberto Otárola, as well as the former Minister of Justice, José Tello.
Luque, in his complaint, considered that all of them had committed a violation of the Constitution, in reference to their powers “in the highest decision-making spheres in matters of the use of police and military forces.”
“We consider that the conduct in which they would have incurred (…) clearly violates the provisions of articles 44 and 118, paragraph 1 of the Constitution in connection with articles 1 and various sections of article 2 of the Constitution, with special attention in relation to the fundamental rights to life and physical and psychological integrity”, indicates the document, collected by the RPP station.
Parliamentarians’ decision
The parliamentarians who are members of the subcommittee considered that the complaint was inadmissible.
Given that “it has not complied with the criteria regarding ‘referring to facts that constitute a violation of the constitution and/or crimes of duty provided for in criminal law'”.
In addition, it emphasizes that one of the complainants “is in the case of literal C of article 89 of the regulations of Congress.”
Said article maintains that it must be considered “whether or not the functional prerogative of the preliminary trial corresponds to the person denounced, or whether or not it is in force.”
The political pretrial is the political-judicial process through which the immunity of high officials is lifted, such as the president and ministers.
In the protests that broke out after the failed self-coup by former President Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022, 49 people have died in direct confrontations with law enforcement.
Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned in its latest report published this Wednesday the police violence registered in Peru during these demonstrations, and assured that it has found cases of “extrajudicial executions.”
In addition, he added that the violence at the hands of law enforcement in the southern town of Ayacucho must be investigated “with an ethnic-racial approach.”
And he considered that the situation could be considered as “a massacre.”