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10,000 Peruvian Policemen
On Alert
Ahead of Fujimori's Sentence
10,000 Peruvian
Policemen On Alert
Ahead of Fujimori's Sentence
Lima - A total of 10,000
Peruvian policemen were put on a three-day
alert in Lima Monday, a day before a court
in Lima rules on the trial of former
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, police
officers said.
General Carlos Leon, top police officer in
Lima, said that the alert began at 16:00
local time (2100 GMT) Monday.
"From Monday 10,000 will be on alert till
Wednesday to offer security services in
different sectors of the city," Leon told
reporters.
He said that police are fully deployed to
guarantee order in the National Direction of
Special Operations (Dinoes) where Fujimori
is imprisoned.
General director of the National Police,
General Muricio Remicio, met on Monday
morning with Dinoes chief, General Luis
Muguruza, to check all the details related
to the security around the place where
Fujimori is being judged.
Fujimori's supporters began to gather in the
place since 16:00 local time, as they have
been protesting since Dec. 10, 2007 when the
trial began.
Fujimori, who had been president from 1990
to 2000, is accused of crimes against
humanity for the killing of politicians from
the opposition.
Prosecutors accuse Fujimori of being
responsible for the killing of 25 people,
including a minor, by a military command,
and the kidnapping and torture of a
businessman and a journalist.
The prosecutors have demanded 30 years of
imprisonment for Fujimori.
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