Pedro Castillo from prison: "I feel unjustly kidnapped"

Former President Pedro Castillo in a screenshot of his appearance at the virtual audience this Tuesday. Justicia TV

Shaved, in a white shirt and without a hat, Pedro Castillo reappeared publicly this Tuesday, the day on which it has been three months since he tried to carry out a self-coup and dissolve Congress.

In the company of his lawyer, the union teacher participated in the virtual hearing in which the request of the Prosecutor's Office to issue a second preventive detention order against him for 36 months was evaluated.

And he did it with a belligerent tone where he once again denied the rosary of crimes that are accused of him and, in addition, he highlighted the theory that there is a conspiracy with bought witnesses who wants to see him behind bars.

“The only crime I have committed is serving my country as President of the Republic.

A castle of crimes has been built with purchased collaborators.

I am going to reach 100 days of being unjustly kidnapped,” said Castillo, who is being held in Barbadillo, a prison that also houses former President Alberto Fujimori.

The ex-president who spent seventeen months in the Palace faces charges of criminal organization, collusion and influence peddling.

The investigation includes former ministers Juan Silva (Transportation and Communications) whose whereabouts are unknown and Geiner Alvarado (Housing, Construction and Sanitation).

Castillo is also accused of the alleged crime of rebellion for which he has already been sentenced to 18 months in preventive detention after the emergency government that he tried to install last December.

In another moment of his speech, Pedro Castillo launched it against Congress, an institution that dismissed him for his

.

“A Congress that today does not serve the country and that has more than 6,500 flights a year (…) and that when the President of the Republic, with his Council of Ministers, goes to request a budget for the country, they first ask for 500 million of soles so that they can be distributed among their benches”, he blurted out.

Almost at the same time as his appearance in court, his wife Lilia Paredes spoke from Mexico and reiterated that Castillo is a political prisoner.

“I want to tell you the last thing I talked to him about.

He told me: 'they will slander me, they will defame me, but I will never betray my people.'

I asked him: 'what can we do?'

And he replied: 'I'm leaving you at the Mexican embassy, ​​I'm going back and I'm going to fight together with all my Peruvian people,' she said through tears.

On the other hand, Jorge Ernesto Hernández Fernández, alias

, was preliminarily arrested this morning in Lima , who is accused of being the coordinator of an alleged criminal network whose purpose was to "intimidate and attack the physical integrity" of public officials, journalists and collaborators who provided information on the alleged acts of corruption in the Castillo government.

This Thursday the judge will read the request for preventive detention for 36 months against the ex-governor.

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