The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte,was attacked by a group of protesters this Saturday, during her visit to the city of Ayacucho. While she was holding an event in that town, a woman grabbed her by the hair and the presidential guard managed to separate her and detain her, in the midst of the tumult generated by the protest against the president’s presence. The event occurs within the framework of the claims and the high level of social conflict, one year after the current Government came to power.
In the images, it is observed that two women are seen grabbing each other’s hair and shaking Boluarte during an official event in the Andean city of Ayacucho.
In that city, at the time of the protests against the current Head of State in 2022, where 10 people died during the protests in that town in the Peruvian interior.
Peru: Dina Boluarte was attacked at an official event in the city of Ayacucho
The attack occurred when Boluarte was participating in the laying of the first stone of the asphalt of a road in the Chiara district in the Ayacucho region, about 570 km southeast of Lima.
The president met with the regional governor of Ayacucho, Wilfredo Oscorima, throwing candies to the population as part of the ceremony when citizen Ruth Bárcena entered the scene stealthily along with another woman who grabbed the president’s hairaccording to television images.
After the situation and all the commotion, in which police and state security intervened, one of the citizens was detained, while the president tried to rejoin.
Ruth Bárcena, one of the aggressors, accused Boluarte of being responsible for the death of her husband, Leonardo Ancco, one of those who died in the protests in Ayacucho on December 15, 2022.. “They killed my husband, am I going to be calm?” Bárcena said when she was arrested.
The Minister of the Interior, Victor Torres, announced that “drastic” disciplinary measures will be taken against the members in charge of the president’s security. “In relation to the escort personnel, they will be relieved,” declared the official.
For his part, Chief of Staff Alberto Otárola expressed his repudiation of the incident. “I condemn and reject the aggression that President Dina Boluarte suffered today in Ayacucho, during an official activity. This unfortunate event endangered the integrity of the head of state and this is very serious. With violence, we all lose as a country,” he said in social network
Dional Boluarte had returned to Ayacucho for the first time since the demonstrations left fifty people dead throughout the country, around twenty of them allegedly at the hands of State forces, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Source: Ambito
