The Government of Peru declared three days of national mourning for the death of Alan García

The government of the President of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, declared on Wednesday three days of national mourning for the death of the former president Alan Garcia (1985-90, 2006-2011) and grant him funeral honors that correspond to an attorney.

According to a supreme decree issued urgently by the official journal Peruvian, The national duel will be held from Wednesday 19th to Friday 19th January, on the occasion of Holy Week dates.

The executive ordered to grant the funeral honors corresponding to the President of the Republic in office at the funeral of Garcia, who died at the age of 69 after being shot in the head while police arrived at his home to arrest him for the Odebrecht case.

The national flag will be flown at half mast in all public buildings, military installations, bases, ships, police premises and other State dependencies throughout the national territory, as well as in the diplomatic, consular and permanent representations of Peru abroad.

The decree was approved by Vizcarra, the president of the Council of Ministers, Salvador del Solar; Chancellor Néstor Popolizio; and the Minister of Justice, Vicente Zeballos.

Hours before, the personal secretary of Garcia, Ricardo Pinedo, told local media that the funeral would be held on Good Friday at 12 o'clock, after his mortal remains were concealed for a day and a half at the "Casa del Pueblo", headquarters of the Peruvian AP party that the former president led.

"Only, it will be veiled and buried with the honors of the apristas, which are sometimes much more than the honors of the president (Martín) Vizcarra", Pinedo said about the current president of Peru, who a few months ago Garcia He accused of being behind the investigation, which he described as persecution.

The secretary of Garcia He said the Aprista party headquarters would be open to "anyone who would like to pay tribute" to the former president who died at the age of 69.

He also pointed out that the autopsy at Garcia will be held at Casimiro Ulloa Hospital, in Lima, where the former governor was admitted after being shot in his home, when a prosecutor and a group of police arrived with a court order to arrest him early in the morning.

Garcia The prosecutor's office opened an investigation into whether he had received bribes from Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company that paid bribes in a dozen Latin American countries. win major public works contracts.

Prosecutors asked if Garcia he had received bribes for the tender of the line 1 of the Lima metro, indicating that they had found his secretary of presidency, Luis Nava, the son of this José Antonio Nava, the former Vice President of the State Petroperú Miguel Atala and the former Vice Minister of Communications Jorge Cuba.

In Peru, the Odebrecht case also carries charges against former presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), as well as opposition leader Keiko Fujimori for irregular donations. received for the election campaigns the presidency of Peru.