The Lima protests caused 800,000 soles worth of damage, according to MML.

Lima Metropolitan Municipality Civil Security Manager (mml), Abdul Mirandaestimated damage to the city on the day of yesterday’s protests at about 800,000 soles, in which a fire destroyed a building near San Martin Plaza.

The damage includes damage to the city’s decorations such as lanterns, green spaces, destroyed trees, railings, decorative benches, among others, detailed by the powers of the mayor.

Miranda pointed out that the security cameras mml They filmed demonstrations and clashes with law enforcement agencies. In some of the images, people can be seen destroying the wall of a house to use the rubble as a weapon against the police.

The Citizen Security Manager has announced that these images will be sent to National Policein order to conduct an examination to identify these subjects and bring them to justice.

The official assured that the city was “calm” this Friday, with no changes or movements of protesters yet registered; a panorama that contrasts with what happened the day before.

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at another time Abdul Miranda we are talking about a fire that occurred in a building at the intersection of Hirones Karabaia and Lino Cornejo streets, not far from San Martin Plazathe epicenter of the protests.

The official admitted that the cameras did not record the beginning Firebut pointed out that a few minutes earlier, protesters had been seen on the second block of Lino Cornejo Giron street lighting bonfires on public roads.

When asked about the version that a tear gas bomb could have caused the fire, the official said: “I cannot give an opinion on this, but I can tell you that a tear gas bomb, a tear gas projectile, does not generate fire. , definitely”.

“The only thing it produces is an irritating gas. A tear gas bomb never extinguishes a spark of fire anywhere; it only releases an irritating gas,” he added.