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Environmental Prosecutor in Áncash Receives New Death Threat as Protection Is Delayed

The prosecutors' association is pressing the national police for an urgent security detail with specialized investigators.

Overview

  • Evelyn Lamadrid Vences, an environmental prosecutor in Santa, reported a WhatsApp death threat sent on October 6 and signed by a group calling itself Los Empresarios.
  • The message referenced asset seizures and warned she would be blown to pieces, according to the complaint filed at the Comisaría de Buenos Aires.
  • The filing states the perpetrators appear to know the movements of Lamadrid and her family, suggesting targeted surveillance.
  • Authorities told her to begin the regular personal-protection process, which typically takes about three months, so she currently has no assigned police guard.
  • The Asociación de Fiscales del Perú called on the PNP to provide immediate protection and specialized investigators and noted her past 2019 threats and the active, confidential inquiry overseen by Santa’s senior prosecutors.