Supreme Court orders new oral trial against Guillermo Bermejo for affiliation to terrorism

The Transitory Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court declared null and void the sentence that acquitted Guillermo Bermejo of the crime of affiliation to the terrorist organization Shining Path and ordered a new oral trial against the congressman Democratic Peru.

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The Judiciary declared the appeals for annulment of the superior prosecutor Gino Quiroz and the anti-terrorist prosecutors Milko Ruiz and Elmer Cruzado founded and resolved to annul the sentence that acquitted the parliamentarian in January of this year and ordered that a new superior court carry out the oral trial and issue a pronouncement on the accusation against him.

According to a report by the newspaper Perú21, the court, presided over by Supreme Judge Ricardo Brousset, warned that the higher court did not duly assess the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, which was mostly testimonies from terrorists who accused him of going to Sendero camps. Bright in the Vraem.

The collaborators identified Bermejo as ‘comrade Che’, who received political and ideological indoctrination, as well as the use of weapons, by the Quispe Palomino. According to the key witness TDTV-2008, the current parliamentarian had the task of “flying” terrorist propaganda “in Ayacucho, Huancayo and some areas of Vraem.”

The collaborator also revealed that he heard Orlando Borda Casafranca, “comrade Alipio”, conversing by telephone with Bermejo on more than one occasion, although he admits that he only saw him once, in 2009, in the terrorist camps.

“‘Che’ communicated by cell phone with comrades ‘Antonio’ ​​and ‘Alipio’; On several occasions I noticed that ‘Alipio’ was on the phone and I heard him say “hello, cousin ‘Che’” and I don’t know what they were talking about”, recounted the witness.

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The prosecution had requested 20 years in prison against Guillermo Bermejo, arguing that he belonged to the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso and, as such, made trips to terrorist camps in the interior of the Ene River Valley, Apurímac and Mantaro (Vraem) to receive instructions, ideological and political indoctrination, as well as training in the use of weapons.

In addition, according to the accusation, Bermejo Rojas would have been commissioned by the terrorist commanders to search for contacts in other international terrorist organizations.

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Bermejo, whom others sentenced for terrorism recognized as ‘Che’ during the oral trial that has been annulled, would have held clandestine meetings with Víctor Quispe Palomino, Jorge Quispe Palomino and other members of the Central Committee of Sendero Luminoso settled inside the Vraem.

Said trips were made between February and March 2009 to the Huancamayo camp, accompanied by the sentenced hiker Wilder Satalaya Apagueño alias “Koki”, Sergio González, Richard Laurencio del Valle and others.

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