Peru votes to introduce urban terrorism into the code

(ANSA) – LIMA, 03 OCTOBER – The Peruvian Parliament votes in plenary session on a bill to introduce the crime of “urban terrorism” into the Criminal Code. President Dina Boluarte’s objective is to give an answer to the transport sector which, after a strike to ask for guarantees for the wave of extortion and contract killings, is threatening to stop again if it does not get answers. The proposed law on urban terrorism provides for a maximum of 30 years in prison and applies to those who commit at least two crimes in a demonstration generating “anxiety in the population or in a sector of it with the aim of obtaining an advantage or economic benefit “. Furthermore, it increases prison sentences for the crimes of extortion, murder for hire and kidnapping. The president of Parliament, Eduardo Salhuana, of the conservative Alliance for Progress (APP) party, is confident that it will be approved. For his part, the President of the Council of Ministers Gustavo Adrianzén declared that “the law is valid due to its persuasive nature: we will focus on those who commit these crimes (extortion, murder on commission and kidnapping), we will classify them as terrorists and we will put them in prison”. (HANDLE).