Alan García, former Peruvian president, has committed suicide

The former Peruvian President Alan García has committed suicide on Wednesday with a bullet in the head, a few moments after the police intervention with a preliminary arrest warrant for the purposes of investigations into the Odebrecht case.

The leader of Aprista, who ruled Peru during the periods 1985-1990 and 2006-2011, it rose towards 6 o'clock in the morningwhen the officers searched his home and prepared to arrest him. After nearly four hours of intensive care at Casimiro Ulloa Hospital, the authorities announced his death.

"The former president has decided to shoot himself in the skin," confirmed his lawyer Erasmo Reyna in front of the press outside the Lima Hospital, Casimiro Ulloa shortly after his hospitalization . According to local media, The former president asked the privacy officers to talk to their lawyers. When he entered his room, the blow was heard.

The director of the hospital, Enrique Gutiérrez, said that the ex-governor had a bullet in the skull with "an entrance and exit" and that all the doctors of Casimiro Ulloa, in the district of Lima in Miraflores, had participated in the operation. to try to save his life.

The police on Wednesday presented a preliminary arrest warrant warrant of up to 10 days for the alleged commission of the crime. money laundering offense in a case related to the scandal Lava Jato / Odebrecht investigating a specialized prosecutor's office.

Several political allies and a handful of political supporters arrived at the hospital, as well as opponents who clashed with PLAR activists. In Congress, the flag was raised halfway up and a minute of silence was observed.

"He left with honor," said Nidia Vílchez, former Minister of Housing. The double president (1985-1990, 2006-2011), who tried to avoid recent investigations by refusing to seek asylum in Uruguay, he was never handcuffed by the authorities who investigated him.

On the eve, Garcia, 69, said in an interview with the station RPP that "it would be a great injustice" that a warrant for arrest be issued against him. Last year, he claimed to be "politically persecuted", but his version was denied by the justice and the Peruvian government.

The first statements by APRA leaders once again denounced persecution against him. His supporters called for a rally at the "House of the People" party headquarters.

According to prosecutors, the then president, García, and 21 other officials conspired to "facilitate" the Dutch ATM Terminals, which won in 2011 the concession of the north terminal of the port of Callao.

Garcia's legal situation is complicated after last Sunday the Odebrecht company, under the terms of the collaboration agreement with the Peruvian justice, revealed that Nava and his son Jose Antonio Nava had received 4 million dollars from the company to complete the contract to build the line 1 of the Lima metro.

In addition, researchers have discovered that García organized a conference in San Pablo (Brazil) in 2012 for which he collected $ 100,000 on the hidden account of the Brazilian construction company.during a demonstration whose organizers confirmed they did not pay the speakers.

The prosecutor's office also found that his former secretary, Luis Nava, his son José Nava Mendiola and the former vice president of the state oil company Petroperú had received millionaire bribes from Odebrecht.