The examinations ordered by the Prosecutor’s Office respond to the versions of those close to Castillo who have affirmed that the former president was not in good health at the time of ordering the closure of Congress.
the destitute Peruvian President Pedro Castillo He has refused to submit to the medical examinations requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, while he remains detained in a Lima jail and is accused of rebellion for having ordered the closure of Congress and the installation of an emergency government, an official source reported this Sunday.
The President of the Institute of Legal Medicine, Francisco Brizuela, He told RPP News that Castillo “has refused to pass the psychological and psychiatric examination” and denied the versions spread by supporters of the ex-president that the doctors have come “in disguise” to surprise him.
Brizuela explained that the doctors who have gone to the prison of the Special Operations Directorate of the Police to examine Castillo have been fully identified and accompanied by a representative of the Public Ministry.
He added that on the first day of Castillo’s detention, last Wednesday, “a physical integrity examination was carried out on him” and “he refused to be examined by three doctors”, but with the pressure measurement and other tests “it was verified He was in good health.”
Environment asked to search for psychotropic substances in Pedro Castillo
The authority confirmed that Castillo “did not authorize a blood and urine sample to be taken,” with which psychotropic substances might be searched in order to identify the different types of substances that he may have ingested in the hours prior to his arrest.
The evaluations ordered by the Prosecutor’s Office respond to the versions of collaborators, lawyers and relatives of Castillo who have affirmed in the last hours that The ex-president might have ingested some substance or that he was not in good health, at the time of reading the message in which he ordered the closure of Congress, the reorganization of the judicial system and the installation of an emergency executive that was going to govern for decree.
The legislator Guillermo Bermejo visited Castillo in his detention center and published an alleged letter signed by the former ruler stating that a group of “camouflaged” doctors forced him to take a sample without his consent, but that he refused, and attributed the “plan Machiavellian” to the attorney general, the head of Congress and the current president, Dina Boluarte.
Castillo is in preventive detention until Wednesday, while the Public Ministry has questioned the members of his last cabinet of ministers, who have denied that they were aware of the decision to close Congress and that those who were next to the former president were former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez and his adviser and predecessor, Aníbal Torres, who announced on Saturday that he was going into hiding.