Peru’s ousted former president Pedro Castillo has called on his supporters to come to the Peruvian National Police detention center in Lima, where he is being held, to receive him at the end of his seven-day preliminary detention on Wednesday.
«Compatriots: tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14, marks seven days of an unjust and abusive detention. Seven days in which the people have shown me their solidarity and commitment in defense of our government and its future,» said the former president in a handwritten letter from the Peruvian National Police center where he has been detained since December 7.
«Tomorrow at 1:42 p.m. (7:42 p.m. Spanish peninsular time) I will be released. I will be waiting for you all at the facilities of the Directorate of Special Operations (Diroes) to join you in a big hug,» Castillo added.
In this sense, Castillo’s former prime minister, Aníbal Torres, also urged to «accompany» the former president when he is released from the National Police detention center this Wednesday.
«Compatriots, I call on you, together with social organizations, to go to the Diroes to receive and accompany him (Castillo),» Torres said in a message on the social network Twitter.
Pedro Castillo is being detained after he announced last December 7 the dissolution of Congress and the establishment of a government of exception. His decree, which did not receive any support, ended up leading the Parliament to support a motion of censure against him and his subsequent arrest by the country’s police.
This Wednesday is the end of his preliminary detention period, although the Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Peruvian Justice for 18 months of imprisonment for Castillo.
However, now the Judiciary has 48 hours to schedule a hearing on this request made by the Prosecutor’s Office, all as part of the already officialized investigation against the former president for rebellion.
