The Government of Peru will resort to international justice organizations to try to reverse the decision of the Constitutional Court (TC) to restore the pardon granted in 2017 to former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), Vice Minister of Justice, Juan Carrasco, reported Thursday.
The official, who also chairs the Commission of Presidential Graces, pointed out that "This will mean (going) to international channels, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) and, through these means, reverse this ruling".
"There are constitutional mechanisms to which Peru will turn at the time we are notified" of the resolution of the TC, emphasized Carrasco after meeting in the Government Palace of Lima with President Pedro Castillo.
This position was supported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, César Landa, who assured on Twitter that the measure of the TC "is not valid, since it goes against the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta case".
"It should be reversed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which already ruled on this issue in 2018, recalling the international obligation of the Peruvian State to punish those responsible for these cases and that the victims find justice."emphasized Landa, a constitutionalist who presided over the TC between 2006 and 2008.
In this regard, Deputy Minister Carrasco explained that the Peruvian Executive will first have "to know the sustenance" of the ruling issued this Thursday by the Constitutional Court, which it described as "outrageous" for all peruvian "who believe in justice".
"We still do not have the resolution, therefore we cannot advance an opinion. We are going to analyze it because in this case the mandate of the TC already exists regarding a past pardon, we would have to analyze the grounds to put the pardon back on the table."narrowed down
Carrasco recalled, however, that "there is an investigation" judicial "about how the pardon was given" to Fujimori and that the Inter-American Court has already affirmed that this grace does not proceed "for people who have committed crimes as serious as qualified homicide and against humanity".
The TC confirmed this Thursday that the casting vote of its president, Augusto Ferrero, decided the nullity of the judicial resolution that suspended the pardon granted in 2017 to Fujimori, after the vote on the appeal of "habeas corpus" that requested this measure was tied with three votes in favor and three against.
In this sense, the high court declared founded an appeal filed by the lawyer Gregorio Parco Alarcón against the resolution of the Supreme Court that in 2018 annulled the pardon granted to Fujimori on December 24, 2017 by the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018).
That pardon is being investigated by the courts, since the Prosecutor’s Office considers that it was the product of a negotiation between Kuczynski and Fujimori’s youngest son, Kenji, who was a congressman at the time, so that Fujimorist legislators would vote against a request for the dismissal of Fujimori. then president.
Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison as the direct perpetrator (with mastery of the act) of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, committed in 1991 and 1992, respectively, by the undercover military group Colina, as well as for the kidnappings of a businessman and a journalist after the coup d’état he gave in 1992.