They request the appearance of the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior of Peru for the assault on San Marcos

Some 400 riot police and special forces stormed the university with tanks and arrested more than 200 people.

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Peruvian congresswoman Flor Pablo has formally requested the appearance of the Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola; of the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero, and the rector of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Jeri Ramón, for the assault of more than 400 police officers who broke into the university campus on Saturday and detained more than 200 protesters.

"What happened today in San Marcos is unacceptable. Without the presence of the Prosecutor's Office, treating students, citizens and defenders of Human Rights as criminals, lying on the floor and beaten is an abuse. Minister of the Interior and rector of the UNMSM must give explanations "Pablo pointed out in a message posted on Twitter.

For this reason, Pablo has presented a motion for Otárola to "report to Congress" and a letter requesting the Education Commission to summon the rector of UNMSM in the next regular session.

Some 400 riot policemen supported by special forces stormed Saturday with tankers, knocking down one of the access gates to the University of San Marcos and detained more than 200 people. There were shots fired and tear gas was fired despite meeting no resistance, according to testimonies collected by the Peruvian press.

Delegations of protesters who came from different parts of Peru to participate in the so-called Toma de Lima in the framework of the protests against President Dina Boluarte, elected after the dismissal of Pedro Castle.

The Ministry of the Interior has explained in a statement that the operation is the response to a complaint filed by a representative of the university about the presence of a group of 300 people who entered the campus illegally and violently and attacked the workers. of security and expelled them.

Peruvian legislation establishes that in this type of operation the presence of officials from the Prosecutor's Office is mandatory to avoid abuses against the detainees, but the suspects were violently subdued, handcuffed on the ground and taken to police stations. The Prosecutor's Office has reported the dispatch of prosecutors to these offices to legalize the arrests and has confirmed the arrest of at least three people for terrorist crimes.

Leaders of the San Marcos University Federation denounced that the police illegally entered the university residences, violating university autonomy, without a court order or the participation of prosecutors. "This only happened in times of Fujimorismo," they have denounced.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has appealed to the Peruvian authorities to guarantee the "legality and proportionality" of the intervention.

Meanwhile, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has expressed its "concern" about the "police incursion, eviction and mass arrests" at the University of San Marcos and has urged the authorities to "render accounts of the facts and guarantee the integrity and due process of all persons".

From the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH) they have denounced that the detainees are being forced to sign registration documents without the presence of their lawyers or representatives of the Prosecutor's Office at the headquarters of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DIRINCRI).