This week it was announced that the Peruvian Ministry of Culture will report to the Prosecutor’s Office the group of university students who went viral through a video spread on social networks in which a party was held with mockery of the figure of George Floyd and his unfortunate death..
The ministry recalled in a statement that The Peruvian Constitution “prohibits and punishes ethnic-racial discrimination”which It is classified as a crime in article 323 of the Penal Code.
“Therefore, the Ministry of Culturethrough its Public Prosecutor’s Officeinitiated the process for the implementation of the complaint before the Office of the Attorney General against those responsible for this act, so that it is investigated and punished in accordance with the law,” he announced.
Culture emphasized that “strongly rejects the racist acts carried out by a group of university students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru” (PUCP)”.
He added that these students “in the context of a social celebration, they mock the African-American citizen. George Floydwho was murdered in 2020 in the city of Minneapolis, United States, victim of violence and racial hatred.”
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“Since andThe Ministry of Culture Immediately upon learning of the facts, we requested the PUCP adopt and report the measures taken to promptly sanction those responsible for this type of conduct. racists towards the Afro-descendant community, which in our country is represented by nearly one million Peruvians,” he said.
The ministry reminded citizens “that if they are victims or witnesses of cases of racism or ethnic-racial discrimination (due to habits, customs, clothing, place of origin, language, beliefs and/or facial or physical features) they can report it” to a telephone line that will offer them “free legal advice.”
Local media published in the last hours a video that went viral on social networks in which you can see Students celebrating with a cake with a portrait of Floyd taped to it while one of them sings “I can’t breathe.”
Following the outrage caused by these imagesthe PUCP strongly rejected in a statement “the manifestations of hatred, racism and any form of discrimination” and announced that his Law schoolwhere those involved study, “has filed the respective complaint with the university’s disciplinary body to initiate the corresponding procedure“.
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