Impunity in Peru? To date, only a few of them have been convicted of contract killings.

Ruby Ferrer was killed on the night of Sunday, February 13, in a remote area of ​​the Lima district of Carabayllo. They forced her into a car, took her to a field and shot her. The fact was recorded by his own executioners. Almost three months after the crime, the killer remains unknown.

According to her friends, Ruby was extorted and coerced by a foreign criminal gang calling itself “Los Gallegos”, who demanded 100 soles a week from her to keep working as a prostitute. Ruby refused and was executed.

In Lima alone, from January to November 2022, about 300 contract killings were registered, that is, at least one per day. In regions, the figure can be incalculable.

“It worries”

Exactly in 2015. hitman According to the former director of the Peruvian National Police, General Eduardo Pérez Rocha, it was included in the criminal code, but to date, the number of people convicted of this crime is small.

“The state ministry in charge of criminal cases is what should impose pre-trial detention and the speed of filing a complaint, and the judiciary, which punishes, as I tell you, only ten cases in seven years, ten! delivered a verdict that is worrying,” General Perez Rocha said.

For Jefferson Moreno, a criminal defense lawyer, the political crisis recorded in recent years and the alleged acts of corruption in which our main governments may be involved have also greatly undermined the work of the police in combating the insecurity of citizens, especially the work of intelligence.

“In the government of Pedro Castillo, we had two or three heads of the National Intelligence Agency and the last former head of DINI ended up in jail, but in addition to going to jail, it was found that he did not have the skills to be head DINI, so if the head has a problem, obviously the body does too,” said Jefferson Moreno.

Modalities start to multiply

Former Undersecretary of the Interior Ricardo Valdez agreed with Jefferson Moreno and added that with the increase in violence, a whole culture of crime has developed that also needs to be fought at a social level.

“Due to the pandemic and conflicts, people have turned to credit and drip loans, which have also risen again in recent months, which has also caused all forms of extortion to multiply,” he said. expressed.

Uncertainty, by any measure, seems to be growing by leaps and bounds and becoming more and more violent. A problem that should not be overlooked by any authority. At the moment, Alberto Otarola, President of the Council of Ministers, has already announced the reform of the police.