They request to declare a state of emergency in Chincha after a shooting attack against the mayor
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The councilor Rosaura Ruiz announced this Tuesday that it will present a request to the Ministry of the Interior to declare an emergency in the province of chincha (Ica) after the mayor Cesar Carranza was attacked with bullets in a house where he was holding a family gathering by New Year.
In dialogue with RPPthe councilor denounced that citizen insecurity and crime have increased in the jurisdiction, where police agents do not have the logistics to face the problem. “Truly, we are living a stage of terror, we feel the emptiness and lack of authority, of protection. We want the Police to take action, but there are no patrol cars in Chincha,” he said.
According to the police report released by the station, the mayor detailed that at least three criminals broke into his family’s property, overpowered his relatives and opened fire when they noticed that he was going to ask for help. One of the shots hit his left arm.
“About one in the morning my sister entered from the terrace shouting: ‘they are attacking us.’ So, I went out and called the Serenazgo to contact the police station. “They were beating one of my brothers, they were cornering my brother-in-law,” he said. Carranza from the San José Hospital, where he was treated and discharged the next morning.
“At the time I started the car and started to back away, one of the bullets entered my arm. It was in and out, happily, and another one has fallen on the phone. “I reached the exit gate of the condominium, and since it was closed, I returned,” he added.
The attackers took wallets, cell phones, credit cards and cash. Although they fled, the PNP Criminalistics team arrived at the condominium to gather information that would allow them to be identified. It occurs in a province that on the first day of 2024 alone registered twenty deaths as a result of insecurity, according to a dispatch from Successful.
To date, the state of emergency It is in force in the Lima districts of San Juan de Lurigancho, San Martín de PorresCercado de Lima and Lince, as well as in seven others in Piura, despite the fact that the Ombudsman’s Office has considered that the measure “is not enough” to confront crime.
Ica, region to which chincha belongs, closed the year with 110 crimes, most of them due to settling scores and hitmen. This figure, recorded by the Ministry of the Interior, places it in the third place of the points with the most bloodshed nationwide, after Lima (540 deaths) and La Libertad (160).
Last October, Carranza had already reported threats after starting organization and cleaning work in areas where outpatient commerce is prohibited. “As mayor I never made public these actions of people with bad lives. “I will not back down in the work to recover roads and public spaces in our city,” he said then in a statement posted on his social networks.
Last week, the mayor of La Victoria, Ruben Cano, was threatened with death through a funeral arrangement left at the door of his house. Next to the flowers, the troops found a pineapple-type grenade and a message that warned: ‘Let us work or do you want La Victoria to be left without a mayor.’
Cano, who also led operations to eradicate informal trade in the jurisdiction, was supported by President Dina Boluarte, who assured that she would provide guarantees. “To the mayor of The victory I receive it with great pleasure and we will give you all the necessary security. We must stand firm and respond to the delinquencybecause these scoundrels are not going to win over our morale or courage,” he said at a press conference.
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