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(6 Jun 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 6 June 2023
1. Main offices of the Public Prosecutor's Office, where Peru's President Dina Boluarte was interrogated by the Attorney General Patricia Benavides
2.Arrival of a caravan of security cars with Boluarte
3. Media trying to take video and photos of Boluarte entering building
4. Various police officers providing security
5. People protesting against Boluarte, shouting "The bloodshed will never be forgotten"'
6. Various of protesters, some holding hand-written messages, reading (Spanish) "No more deaths, Dina murderer."
7. Protesters
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Carlos Ramirez, protester:
"She (Dina Boluarte) is testifying (in the prosecutor's office) after being summoned twice, we already know that she is denying all responsibility and blames the population and Pedro Castillo (former imprisoned president), for the deaths, but still they have no escape. Because even if there is no justice in our country, still the lawyers are going to appeal to go to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, just as Fujimori (Alberto) was extradited and is in prison, the same will happen with Dina Boluarte sooner or later."
9. Various of protests outside the Public Prosecutor's Office
10.Car of the president leaving the prosecutor's office after interrogation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 24 January 2023
11. Various of Boluarte arriving at press conference
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dina Boluarte, President of Peru:
"A resignation and early elections, then what will they ask for (next)? They only want to generate chaos and anarchy in the country."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 19 January 2023
13. Various of protesters clashing with police
14. Various of a demonstrator injured, being assisted by medical personnel
15. Clashes

STORYLINE:
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte testified on Tuesday at the Public Prosecutor's Office in an investigation for the alleged crimes of genocide, aggravated homicide, and serious injuries during the anti-government protests that left more than 60 dead in three months.

The presidential office reported on its Twitter account that the president was at the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Before arriving for questioning her lawyer, Joseph Campos, told the press that Boluarte would not use "silence as a means of defense" but would answer the investigators' questions.

Prime Minister Alberto Otárola told local radio station RPP that the president's interest is "that things are clarified."

The president was summoned in January, February and March, but she has not testified until now.

Otárola was questioned in January and February in the same investigation.

The protests against the Boluarte government left 67 dead and more than 1,300 injured, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

Almost all the dead were civilians, and most of them were hit by firearms.

In Peru, genocide is punishable by a minimum of 20 years in prison.

Boluarte came to power on December 7 after her predecessor, Pedro Castillo, attempted to dissolve Parliament - which was seeking his impeachment - and was removed from office.

Castillo is serving an 18-month pre-trial detention in a prison in Lima for the alleged crime of rebellion.

Since then, protests have begun in the rural areas of the southern Andes, demanding the resignation of Boluarte and the members of Parliament.

The demonstrations spread all the way to Lima and subsided by mid-February.

AP Video by Cesar Barreto


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