A group of supporters and detractors of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo clashed this Wednesday in front of the center where the former president is being held in Lima, accused of having carried out a self-coup.
The bodies of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) have had to intervene with tear gas and detain some of the protesters in order to free the central Alfonso Ugarte avenue, as EFE was able to witness.
With sticks, flags and other objects, a small group of violent people have faced blows and shoves in front of the police station where the former president is being held, after his attempted closure and dissolution of the Peruvian congress.
Castillo supporters hurled stones, cobblestones and other objects at PNP police forces in the center of the Peruvian capital in protest of the former president's arrest.
The local media did not report major incidents in the rest of the country's cities, where only small groups lamented the arrest of the former president.
Castillo dictated this Wednesday to temporarily dissolve Congress and establish a national emergency government, hours before Parliament debated a vacancy motion (removal) against him that could have removed him from the head of state.
After the measure, labeled by the majority as a coup d'etat and not even supported by his government, he was dismissed by Congress for "permanent moral incapacity" with 101 votes out of 130 in favor, and arrested by the Police.
Later, the former vice president, Dina Bolaurte, was sworn in as the new head of state and called for a political truce to begin a broad process of dialogue between the forces and institutions.
