Thousands of people went down the street to protest against the decision of the Constitutional Court to release the former president.
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At the announcement of the anticipated release of the ex-autocrat Alberto Fujimori, 83, sentenced in 2009 to twenty-five years in prison for crimes against humanity and corruption, anger reactions broke out in Peru , Thursday, March 17th. The supporters of the former president (1990-2000), who asked for his release from prison, invoking his great age and his fragile health, greeted this decision, while thousands of people protested in the streets of the historic center of Lima , the capital, Cuzco, and other major cities in the country, against this qualified judgment of “national shame”. On social networks, the hashtags #indultoesinsulto (“grace is an insult”) and “all in the street” quickly became virals.
The decision being immediate, Alberto Fujimori should go out in the coming days of the penitentiary center located on the outskirts of Lima, where he is incarcerated, after spending less than fifteen years behind the bars.
Thursday, the Constitutional Court ordered the release of the former president, restoring a grace initially granted into Catimini in 2017, on Christmas Eve, by the former right president Pablo Kuczynski (“ppk” ” , 2016-2018), for “humanitarian reasons”. A grace then canceled by the Supreme Court the following year, because of a series of “irregularities”, – in particular a procedure deemed too rapid – and while “ppk” had manigansed with the Fujimor camp to avoid its dismissal by the Congress. “Returning to prison is a slow and certain death condemnation,” said Fujimori, prey to recurring health problems. Mid-March 2022, he had spent a week in a private clinic for heart and pulmonary disorders.
A CLAN always influential
Three judges voted in favor of his release, three against. The President of the Court had to decide, and his voice is preponderant. The current Minister of Education, Rosendo Serna (Left), has denounced a “political” decision, while some suspects partisan partisan judges with the Fujimori clan, whose influence continues to weigh in all spheres of power.
The decision, highly controversy, occurs while country faces a deep political and institutional crisis, and that democracy has never been soaked since its recovery twenty-two years ago, when Mr. Fujimori, corrupled by Denunciations of corruption and electoral fraud, had hastily left the power in November 2000, taking refuge in Japan, the country of origin of his parents.
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