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Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office opens proceedings after death of indigenous leader

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December 2 |

The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Peru informed this Friday that it started the proceedings corresponding to the murder of the indigenous leader of the Kwcha people, Quinto Inuma Alvarado, who was killed this Wednesday in the Amazon region.

“Tercera Fiscalía Supraprovincial Corporativa Corporativa contra el Crimen Organizado (3.º Despacho) initiated preliminary proceedings into the death of the indigenous Kichwa leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado, which occurred in the San Martin region,” the agency said in its X account.

At the same time, the agency specified that the superior prosecutor Jorge Chávez Cotrina and the members of the Specialized Multidisciplinary Team (EME) arrived in the city of Tarapoto, San Martin region (north), to carry out the “urgent and necessary” diligences to clarify the events.

For his part, the Peruvian Minister of the Interior, Víctor Torres, stated that the perpetrators of the violent incident “have their hours numbered” and emphasized that they will be brought to justice.

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He recalled that Inuma was doing outstanding work in denouncing illegal logging of timber species.

He emphasized that the victim’s relatives and the native leaders “are not alone”, meanwhile, he affirmed that the country “has to change, we are ready to help them, we are going to provide support and protection for the case”.

This Wednesday, the indigenous leader was intercepted in Pucallpa, in the department of Cuayali, by hooded men who shot him when he was returning from an event to protect environmental defenders.

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