Overview
- Graffiti featuring a hammer and sickle and the phrases “MJR,” “Que viva la revolución,” and “Sendero Luminoso” appeared in corridors and a women’s bathroom of Unsaac’s civil engineering building.
- Police and prosecutors responded, erased the inscriptions, and opened preliminary proceedings for a possible apología al terrorismo offense.
- Regional police chief Julio Becerra said the markings do not match typical Sendero patterns, citing the use of black spray paint, and reported no indications of an active cell in Cusco.
- Investigators are reviewing available security footage and conducting interviews, though the immediate area lacks cameras; no arrests have been announced and a female author is a working hypothesis.
- University leaders said campus security is being reinforced, and they acknowledged internal elections and a recent campus takeover as lines of inquiry into possible motives.