“This unjust preventive detention that has been imposed It has only served to polarize our country.; everything that is done against me and all this process It is nothing more than a political revenge“Castillo, sporting a thinning mustache and chin, said in a video conference with the appeals chamber.
The former president is confined in a small penal within a police base in a district east of the city of Lima. After his expulsion its vice president, Dina Boluarte, assumed power.
Crisis after impeachment
Castillo’s removal by the opposition-dominated Congress sparked a wave of protests in the country, which in almost two weeks have left at least 22 dead -according to official data- after clashes with police and army after the new government decreed a state of emergency.
“I I have never committed a crime of rebellionI have not taken up arms, nor have I called anyone to take up arms,” said Castillo. “Whoever rose up in arms to end the lives of more than 30 Peruvians is the current governmentwith a balance of more than 20 missing and more than 200 injured“, he claimed.
After the hearing, in which the prosecutor’s office and the former president’s lawyer participated, the Judge César San Martín, president of the Supreme Permanent Criminal Chamberstated that the court will initiate an internal debate for resolve Castillo’s appeal “immediately” what seeks to annul his pretrial detention.
Source: Ambito
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