POLICY

Lima awaits the world champions in a state of emergency due to insecurity

The central areas of Lince and Cercado de Lima, near Miraflores, where the world champions will gather tonight, were reached by a presidential decree that ordered drastic measures to combat hitmen, pimping and human trafficking.

  • 21/10/2023 • 11:17

The city of Lima will host the Argentine soccer team this Monday under a climate of conflict due to organized crime, which led a few days ago to extend the state of emergency in some of its districts in the metropolitan area. The central areas of Lince and Cercado de Lima, near Miraflores, where the world champions will gather tonight, were reached by a presidential decree that ordered drastic measures to combat hitmen, pimping and human trafficking. Since last Wednesday, the National Police of Peru (PNP), with the support of the Armed Forces, have been trying to restore internal order with a strong presence on the avenues and streets during the early hours of the morning. The main arteries of both urbanizations register extensive operations daily in conjunction with Immigration personnel and the National Superintendency for Control of Security Services, Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives for Civil Use (SUCAMEC). For 60 days, between midnight and 4:00 in the morning, social gatherings and events, the opening of nightclubs or similar establishments, the sale of alcohol and street circulation in significant numbers were prohibited. The decree of President Dina Boluarte extended to Lince and Cercado de Lima a provision that has been in force for exactly one month in the districts of San Martín de Porres and San Juan de Lurigancho, in the province of Lima; and in Sullana, Bellavista, Marcavelica, Salitral, Querecotillo, Ignacio Escudero and Miguel Checa in the province of Sullana, in the department of Piura, in the north of the country. In the jurisdiction of Lince, located three kilometers south of the National Stadium, where tomorrow the South American Qualifiers match will be played (at 9 p.m. in Peru, at 11 p.m. in Argentina), some seven gangs dedicated to human trafficking were dismantled days ago. people, clandestine prostitution and extortion.