The popular singer who killed Hitmen in Peru in Peru, which prompted an emergency in the capital for the killings of extortion
Peru announced the urgent state of late Sunday in the Lima capital because of the wave of killings associated with extortion.
The move came after the singer Paul Flores shot Hitmen who attacked the bus he was driving with his colleagues as they left the concert outside Lima, the officials said.
The Ministry of Culture Peru responded to the Flores tribute On social mediasaying that the main singer of the popular Armonía 10 “won the hearts of the thousands of Peruan.”
The musicians were threatened with a criminal gang that tried to make money from them, their representatives said.
“It was ordered to determine the extraordinary state in the entire Province of Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao in the following hours,” Gustavo Adrianzen, head of the ministerial cabinet, Posted on social media.
Adrianzen said the troops would be deployed to support the National Police, and a security meeting that was scheduled for the end of the month will now be held on Tuesday.
“In the fight against organized crime, all Peruvians have to stand united, overcoming all our differences of any kind,” he said in a statement.
While extortion is a problem in Latin America, he took to alarming proportions in Peru – a phenomenon that was partly blamed for a criminal gang like Venezuela Treasure de Aragua which operates in several Latin American countries.
In January is a journalist who reported on an epidemic of extortion of Peru shot And two people were injured in a separate bombing on the prosecution, which also investigates reaction.
Since January, more than 400 killings have been reported, according to local media.
Last year, Peru proclaimed a state of emergency in parts of the capital and deployed an army in response to a series of murders of bus drivers charged with reaction pandemia.
In the first 10 months of 2024. Police received more than 14,000 extortion complaints. But it is believed that the problem is more widespread because many victims do not report cases of fear.
