Alberto Fujimori will answer this Thursday to the prosecutor in the case of Melissa Alfaro.

ex-president Alberto Fujimori next Thursday will testify at the prosecutor’s office as part of the investigation into the death of a journalist Melissa Alfaro, who died in October 1991 bomb shell explosion.

The start of the virtual oral trial in this case is scheduled for June 23, when Fujimori will testify in court. Third Supra-Provincial Criminal Prosecutor’s Office of Lima where it will be determined whether a criminal case will be opened as a direct culprit in the death of a journalist, reported victim’s relatives through a statement.

In this process are also accused, in particular, the former military Victor Peñas. suspected perpetrator of the attack and former presidential adviser Vladimir Montesinos allegedly intermediary authorserving, like Fujimori, a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.

long fight

“Decades later, the fight for justice never ends for parents and siblings (Alfaro) who strongly insist on initiating legal proceedings against Alberto Fujimori and effective and timely sanction executed for him, Vladimiro Montesinos and all those under investigation, ”the note from the journalist’s relatives says.

In addition, they announced a symbolic action for Thursday in front of the Lima Criminal Chamber. “Take a vigilant role and to demand from magistrates that, in the development of oral proceedings and tax investigations, the right to justice of the victim and his relatives shall prevail.”

“For the oral trial to be conducted in a transparent manner and for the sanction for the murder of a journalist don’t wait more than a year”, they said, recalling that Alfaro’s parents, brothers and sisters have been waiting for more than 30 years, “until the political and material authors will sit in the dock and answer before the court for the murder of a young woman.”

In October 1991, Alfaro was 23 years old. Head of Information at Cambio Weeklya medium who questioned the leadership of Fujimori’s government on several occasions.

On the 10th of the same month, at her workplace, the girl received an envelope addressed to the director of the outlet, in which there were 200 grams of ambo-gelatin, explosive that exploded and caused his death. (EFE)