The former Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, spoke out this Saturday for the primary time since he was arrested on Wednesday.
Through a letter revealed by Congressman Guillermo Bermejo, he has accused the Prosecutor’s Office, Congress, and the present president, Dina Boluarte, of directing a “Machiavellian plan” towards him.
In the letter, Castillo stated that a number of folks “forced him to take a blood sample” on Friday and that they did it once more on Saturday.
“Yesterday afternoon, a group of camouflaged doctors and a faceless prosecutor forced me to take a sample without my consent, and today they returned with the same thing because I refused, for my safety and my integrity”, he denounced within the textual content.
This Friday, it was made public {that a} staff of authorized docs from the Prosecutor’s Office was going to go to the previous president to take samples to carry out a toxicological take a look at to find out if Castillo was below the affect of any substance when he gave the speech by which he dissolved the Parliament and established the state of emergency.
This information was launched after Bermejo prompt that Castillo “was not in his faculties” when he dedicated the acts which can be being tried as against the law of revolt.
The congressman himself demanded this Friday that this take a look at be carried out to find out if it had been an “induced” motion.
However, Castillo has acknowledged that he doesn’t rule out that the Attorney General, Patricia Benavides, the Congress of the Republic, and Dina Boluarte are directing “this Machiavellian plan”.