The Investigation Must Shift Focus to the Provokers of Violence, says President’s Lawyer

Joseph Campos, lawyer for President Dina Boluarte, pointed out that they partially answered the questions from the Attorney General’s Office and asked that they refer to the statements previously recorded, since they considered that the investigation for genocide against the president does not have “any type of handle”.

“We have had to interrupt this statement when we know that legally it has no basis. But as we are respectful, we have gone to declare. Regarding the events, which could have occurred anywhere in the Peruthe answer is one: we gave statements that the situation, public order, respecting fundamental rights be controlled,” he told the press.

Furthermore, with respect to the questions asked by the State Attorney General’s Office and the lawyers of the families of the deceased, he indicated that they are irrelevant. Likewise, he refused to recognize as victims the more than fifty people who died as a result of the repression.

“At this point in the investigation there are no victims or perpetrators. This is being investigated in its corresponding times and places. But the President of the Republichas been responsible and cannot even at the level of perception create a responsibility that it does not have,” he asserted.

“We decided to refrain from continuing to participate and submit our responses to what we had previously established (…). According to the law, participation should not be allowed other than the Public ministry. We are respectful, but we have decided not to continue with the statement. So, why did we ask the questions? But she got in and there she is. They are irrelevant,” she emphasized.

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“I believe that there will be no new proceedings”

At another time, he said that he does not believe that new procedures will be carried out and that the direction of the investigation must change, no longer to determine responsibility for the more than fifty deaths as a result of the repression, but rather to punish those who “they caused the violence“.

“I believe that there are not going to be new proceedings, because the correct thing would be that for the consistency of what I am pointing out, this investigation should be closed,” he indicated.

“The problem of violence and the moment of the investigation must look elsewhere, to who were the ones who caused the violencewhich is also important to take into account,” he concluded.