Castillo will probably be in pretrial detention for seven days after the coup in Peru

The ousted president of Peru in a current picture. Europa Press

The former Peruvian president was intercepted when he supposed to go to the Mexican Embassy in Lima The Prosecutor’s Office requested preventive detention to find officers who’ve collaborated with the previous president

The Justice of the Peace thus agrees to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, which argued that the measure was essential to proceed with the investigations to establish different officers who might have participated in Castillo’s choice to finish Congress, set up an emergency authorities and name new Parliamentary election.

Castillo was arrested this Wednesday after being dismissed by Congress after it introduced its dissolution. As confirmed by the Mexican president himself, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the previous Peruvian president was intercepted when he tried to go to the Mexican Embassy in Lima.

Castillo, in the identical jail as Fujimori

After giving a press release on the headquarters of the Lima Prefecture, Castillo has been transferred to the Directorate of Special Police Operations (Diroes), within the Ate district, in Lima, a jail the place former President Alberto Fujimori can also be positioned. .

After his dismissal and subsequent arrest, and as established by the Constitution, the place has been assumed by the one who was till then the vp, Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer who was till final week Minister of Development and Social Inclusion,