The Government of Peru announces that the state of emergency in Lima will decree and will call the Army to fight organized crime

The Government of Peru announced Sunday night that the state of emergency In the next few hours in Metropolitan Lima and in its neighboring province of Callao, with the authorization for the deployment of the Armed Forces in support of the National Police before the rise of murders linked to extortion.

“The State of Emergency has been arranged in the next few hours throughout the province of Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao, with the deployment of troops of our Armed Forces in support of the National Police,” said Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén, in the social network X.

The decision was completed after a meeting between President Dina Boluarte and her ministers, as a corollary of a day marked by the Murder of the singer of a cumbia orchestra at the hands of hitmen.

“I assure that This repudiable crime will not be unpunished “added the government head. It was not detailed how many days the emergency will last.

Adrianzén indicated that a meeting of the National Citizen Security Council (CONASEC), which brings together the main authorities of the State’s powers, and decree a reform of the country’s prison system.

“It is planned to decree a comprehensive reform of the penitentiary system. In the fight against organized crime, all Peruvians must keep us together, overcoming all our differences are of any kind,” he said.

The prime minister made this announcement hours after parties of different political trends, including the Fujimorist Popular Force, demanded the resignation or dismissal of the Interior Minister, Juan José Santiváñez.

He Harmony 10, Paul Flores group singer died in the early morning when several motorcycle hitmen attacked the orchestra’s buses out of a concert in the populous district of San Juan de Lurigancho, east of Lima. Two shots mortally wounded the well -known vocalist according to the vehicle driver.

Harmony 10, along with other musical groups, had been threatened by criminal gangs that They demanded to pay quotas of up to 20,000 soles (just over USD 5,000) to continue acting, according to representatives of the group.

The organized bands are dedicated to the hired, extortion and commit acts of terror against the police.

The increase in urban violence in the first months of the year records alarming levels, with more than 400 homicides, According to the local press.

It is not the first time that the Peruvian authorities resort to the military to reinforce security in Lima, because last year they applied the same measure until December.

According to the authorities, organized crime has changed substantially in recent years in Peru after the migration crisis in Venezuela, the traffic of firearms and the presence of Bands like him Aragua train, of Venezuelan origin.