Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo spoke on Saturday for the first time since his arrest on Wednesday.
Through a letter published by Congressman Guillermo Bermejo, he accused the Prosecutor’s Office, Congress and the current president, Dina Boluarte, of running a “Machiavellian plan” against him.
In the letter, Castillo said that several people “forced him to take a blood sample” on Friday and that they did it again on Saturday.
“Yesterday afternoon a group of camouflaged doctors and a faceless prosecutor forced me to take a sample without my consent and today they came back with the same because I refused, for my safety and integrity,” he denounced in the text.
This Friday it was made public that a team of forensic doctors from the Prosecutor’s Office would visit the former president to take samples to perform a toxicology test to determine if Castillo was under the influence of any substance when he delivered the speech. dissolved Parliament and imposed a state of emergency.
The news broke after Bermejo suggested that Castillo was “not in his faculties” when he committed the acts that are being tried as a crime of sedition.
The congressman himself requested this Friday that this test be performed to determine if it was an “induced” movement.
However, Castillo has stated that he does not rule out that the Attorney General, Patricia Benavides, the Congress of the Republic and Dina Boluarte lead “this Machiavellian plan”.
