“Alone as a father is afraid”: testimonies of danger on the street in cases of assassins in Peru

He hitmanextortion, assault and, in general, insecurity of a citizen, in the north of the country, while the authorities are unable to stop these crimes. Neighbors, transporters and businessmen live in fear and demand that justice be harsher on criminals in regions like La Libertad and Lambayeque.

RPP Noticias collected the votes of the citizens. In the La Libertad region, more than 84 homicides have been committed this year, of which 34 are incidents hired assassins or payback, according to Trujillo’s Criminal Investigation Department. 34-year-old process engineer Franco Lavado Castillo tells us about this.

“Trujillo, from one moment to the next, has become a no man’s land. There are so many murders every day that at least one, like a father, is afraid, even for his children. So many cases, sometimes it seems that Trujillo is no longer the same as he was before. To be honest, I don’t know if the authorities are doing something or not, but they should act with a contingency plan,” he said.

Hitman: “There’s always insecurity”

While 32-year-old civil engineer Edinson Kava from the El Porvenir area talks about his negative experience.

“Have you ever been the victim of an attack? Yes, several times when there was an attempted kidnapping, another time my car was stolen, my mobile phone and money were taken away, here in Trujillo there are always such things,” he said.

Considering this situation insecurity In Lambaek, the Chiclayo carriers have proposed a civilian taxi strategy that calls central 105 immediately so that the police can arrive at the scene after witnessing criminal activity. Orlando Bustamante, manager of Peru Tours, which promotes the initiative, comments that five years ago one of his workers was killed after refusing to pay quotas, and the crime has not yet been solved.

“We were one of those who constantly extorted us, but, thank God, we never paid anything, but the driver was killed, and the car disappeared. The bad thing is that sometimes you file a complaint, but everything stops there, it seems that there was a conspiracy, complicity with these criminal groups, which was never investigated and remained a complaint, on paper,” he said.

Hired Assassin: with included phrase

According to Police Macro-Region II Lambayeque, 7 cases of hitmen have been reported in this part of the country since January.

Moreover, in recent weeks killers from Lambayeque and Piura recorded the killing of their victims, who allegedly refused to pay foreign creditors, according to the National Police. Leaving the scene of the crime, the criminals repeated the phrase “this is how you respect the system.”

And in the small north, the province of Barranca in the Lima region suffers the most from crime. There have been 15 murders so far this year, including that of Third Detachment non-commissioned officer Juan Angel Herrera Lozano, 24, who was gunned down one block from a Barranca police station after resisting the theft of his weapon.

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Besides the interest in money, what new face does the hitman have in the country? Do these criminals have previously undetected traits? Let’s find out more about this type of crime and those who dare to commit it in the next report.