On Sunday evening, the Peruvian government in the capital of Lima declared an extraordinary situation in connection with the wave of murder associated with blackmail. According to local media, more than 400 have recorded them in the country since January, TASR writes according to AFP report.
The Government’s measure has triggered The murder of the well -known Peruvian singer Paul Flores, who was shot by the killers on Sunday. They attacked a bus in which Flores took the other members of the Armonia 10 band after a concert near Lima. Musicians’ representatives said they were threatening a criminal gang in order to raise money from them.
“It has been ordered to declare a special situation in the whole Lima province and in the province of Callao,” Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén on Platform X.
Blackmail is a problem in the whole of Latin America, but in Peru according to AFP has acquired alarming dimensions. The Government of the Government in the capital has been announced last year and deployed the army after a series of murders of bus drivers from which blamed the blackmail criminal gangs.
