San Marcos condemned the theft of equipment and attacks on security personnel during the takeover of the university.

The National University of San Marcos (UNASM) condemned that a group of protesters who were in the study building stole several items of equipment and attacked the building. security personnel that secure door 1 access to University campus.

The House of Research said in a statement that the events took place at 9:40 p.m. on Friday, January 20, and that the subjects’ faces were covered as they attacked security forces.

“This group of protesters were with their faces covered, they cut down and stole the security equipment and vests of all security personnel, beat them and threw them out of the University Campus at this time of the night,” the general said in a statement. Office of Institutional Image.

According to the university, items they also went to gate 6 and took away the equipment and vests of the officers of the Department of Internal Affairs who were at the specified passage. In total, seven electronic devices and seven vests were stolen.

The security forces who were attacked applied to the 3rd district police department with a statement.

Minutes after the denunciation of the “Dean of America” ​​became known, a squad of police entered the training house to evict the protesters.

UNASM assured that the police acted “ex officio” under the state of emergency.

National University of San MarcosUNAMS) described a police intervention on his campus this morning that evicted anti-government protesters on site.

In a statement, the Research House assured that National Police acted “ex officio”—under a state of emergency imposed by the government—to restore the doors of the University Campus “which had been forced down by protesters.”

UNASM assured that in University Council It was decided that the demonstrators should leave on Thursday at noon, which did not happen.

“At an extraordinary meeting of the University Council on January 18, it was decided to establish a dialogue between the commission of deans and students of UNAMS and representatives of the protesters; where it was agreed that they have a deadline for an organized exit from campus until Thursday 19, 12:00, an agreement that was not honored,” the document says.

The university urged the San Marcos community to maintain “calm and serenity” in order to restore academic and administrative activity on Monday, January 23.