angry residents of Puerto Maldonado arrested and assaulted the former candidate for the Tambopata Provincial Municipality, whose capital is Puerto Maldonado, Gerson Jordan Rivasplata Floreswhom they accuse of inciting the blockade of streets and violence during the strike in that city through his Facebook transmission.
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Rivasplata, who was a leader of the motorcycle taxi drivers, also presents himself as a social communicator using the Facebook platform, from where he broadcasts live on the political situation in the country.
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In the images broadcast on social networks, some thirty men, some of them armed with sticks, can be seen entering the building from where the former candidate of Peru Libre incited to participate in the strike asking for the resignation of the President Dina Boluarte and the closure of the Congress of the Republic.
TAKEN TO THE STREET
Then he was violently dragged out into the street. Some took the opportunity to lie to his mother and hit him a few times. The leader only managed to raise his hands and stay calm. Moments later he was handed over to the police officers who appeared in the area.. He ended up at the Tambopata police station, where he declared for the accusations made against him.
“He is the promoter of so much violence. Take him away!” shouted the population that was furious against the communicator.
Meanwhile, the journalist Manuel Calloquispe said “Gerson Rivasplata, leader of the motorcycle taxi drivers, led the group of protesters who blocked the Billingurst Bridge. This leader and his group threw stones at the marchers, he was captured and handed over to the police, as it should be ”
“You are the promoter of so much violence, take it away, everything you provoke”a woman yelled at him when he was taken to the police station.
MARCH FOR PEACE
Just yesterday afternoon, in the Padre Aldamiz ovalsince four in the afternoon, different residents of Puerto Maldonado They started a march for peace, whose objective was to call for tranquility in the different provinces of the region and allow the free circulation of trade. But there were clashes that left one injured with a skull fracture.
At the moment of arrival to the town of El Triunfo, a brawl broke out between various groups that threw stones at each other.
The lieutenant governor of El Triunfor said that unfortunately there were no security guarantees and blamed an infiltrator for the acts of violence.
In the santa rosa hospital three injuries were reported, one of them with a skull fracture.
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