Lima, 14 apr. The Judiciary of Peru began this Friday the procedures for preventive detention for the purpose of extradition of the Venezuelan Sergio Tarache Parra, who was arrested this Tuesday in Bogotá, accused of having burned his 18-year-old Peruvian ex-partner alive in the streets of the town historical of Lima
The proceedings were initiated by the 24th Preparatory Investigation Court of the Superior Court of Justice (CSJ) of Lima, which asked to inform “the pertinent authorities via diplomatic means of the preventive detention order” issued against the accused, the CSJ reported on Twitter.
In this sense, Judge Cristóbal Solís sent a letter to the head of the Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Nation, Edgar Rebaza Vargas, requesting that the corresponding process be initiated before the diplomatic authorities.
The judge attached the request for preventive detention for the purpose of extradition of Tarache, as well as the migration file, the letters of international arrest and warrant location and the charge for receiving the letters sent by email to the International Police (Interpol). .
The communication was given one day after Solís ordered nine months of preventive detention against the accused, after considering that “it has been shown that the accused (…) not only fled the scene after having committed the crime with extreme cruelty, ferocity (and) treachery, (…) in a premeditated, planned manner and executing the burn injuries himself, but also fleeing the national territory”.
The magistrate maintained that there is a “strong level of suspicion” to link Tarache as the perpetrator of the crime of “aggravated femicide” against the Peruvian Katherine Gómez and considered proven the lack of roots of the accused, who was arrested in the capital of Colombia, reason for which his extradition must be requested within a period of five days.
According to what was recorded in images from the security cameras in the center of Lima on March 18, Tarache argued with Gómez in the central Plaza Dos de Mayo, after which he doused her body with gasoline and set it on fire.
Pedestrians tried to help the victim, who they rolled on the asphalt to put out the flames and then a taxi driver intervened with a fire extinguisher, but the attack caused burns on 60% of his body that caused his death after a week hospitalized in a Lima hospital.
Prosecutor Carla Castro has requested that Tarache be sentenced to life imprisonment, for the aggravating factors of “cruelty and treachery” and “use of fire” included in the Peruvian Penal Code, while the Peruvian Government requested a similar sentence for the crime of femicide . EFE
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