The former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, will serve 18 months in pretrial detention in the Barbadillo prison, installed in the same police station where ex-governor Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes once morest humanity. The National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) reported this Friday.
The organization indicated, in a statement, that the decision for Castillo to remain in the same place where he served preliminary arrest since last December 7, in the Lima district of Ate, has been taken “due to security measures, in safeguarding of his personal physical integrity, due to his status as former President of the Republic”.
He explained that the INPE Technical Classification Board, made up of a psychologist, a lawyer and a social worker, determined, first of all, that the former ruler be classified “in the ordinary regime” of prison.
“The National Penitentiary Institute guarantees the security and physical integrity of persons deprived of their liberty in penitentiary establishments at the national level”, concluded.
Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley issued this Thursday 18 months of preventive detention for the former president, while he is investigated for the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy for the failed self-coup on December 7.
Checkley said that pretrial detention “runs from December 7, 2022 to June 6, 2024.”
In this way, it accepted the request made by the Prosecutor’s Office, which had considered that “there is a procedural period of flight” and in which he had a specific weight that, minutes before his dismissal, he had tried to go to the Mexican Embassy in Lima to request asylum.
The ex-governor will be investigated as the alleged co-perpetrator of the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy, as well as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public peace.
The investigation has been described as “complex” by the Public Ministry and will last eight months.
Castillo was arrested on December 7 following being dismissed by Congress shortly following announcing the closure of the Legislative, the formation of an emergency executive, which was to govern by decree and reorganize the justice system, in addition to calling a constituent assembly.
After his dismissal, he was replaced by his then vice president, Dina Boluarte, who has been facing a series of protests and violent demonstrations since last Sunday that have left 20 dead in the country so far.
