Overview
- The first vice president of Congress said he has presented a bill to exempt security forces from criminal responsibility when confronting violent mobilizations allegedly promoted by terrorism and financed by illegal economies.
- The draft specifies protections when officers defend critical national assets, public or private property, the lives of others, or their own lives.
- Rospigliosi argued that today’s crime threats place Peru in a situation comparable to the 1980s–1990s period of internal conflict.
- He criticized sectors he says seek to rewrite history by focusing on alleged human rights violations and pursuing those who fought terrorism.
- The event drew more than a hundred PNP officers in the Alberto Andrade Carmona auditorium and featured lawmakers Víctor Flores Ruiz and Alfredo Azurín Loayza, with closing remarks by retired General José Méndez Lengua; no subsequent legislative debate or committee action has been reported.