They look at Alan García at APRA headquarters and his family rejects the official honors

The remains of the former Peruvian president Alan García, who took his life this Wednesday, April 17 in Lima, were veiled this morning at the local historical APRA, known as "House of the People", in a tribute that will last until Friday, April 19th. The Peruvian government has decreed three days of national mourning from April 17 to 19but the answer from the family of the former president was to reject all kinds of official honors, so that Garcia will not have the state funeral that would have matched him as a former president.

"The family has made a decision and we must respect it," noted the congressman Jorge del Castillo, reporting on the position of the family of the former president, who questions the government of President Martín Vizcarra on his "pbadive attitude" in the court proceedings that led Garcia to make the drastic decision to commit suicide.

"Alan is not dead, he is still with his people!", "APRA never dies!", Hundreds of activists chanted shouts of joy, shouting at the arrival of the coffin with the remains of Garcia, shortly before midnight. The disconcerted crowd gathered a few blocks of queues in front of the APRA headquarters, also singing songs of partisan fervor in favor of the former president.

On its journey of about 10 kilometers from Casimiro Ulloa emergency hospital, thousands of Lima residents were confined in the avenues through which the caravan which was carrying the remains of García pbaded until At the party headquarters. With shouts and applause, they welcomed the funeral convoy, which slowly took the path of the wake location, according to the AFP agency.

President Vizcarra had previously stated via his Twitter account that he was "shocked by the death" of Garcia, and in the same sense, he voiced Keiko Fujimori, Leader of the opposition: "I am very sad to learn of the tragic departure of former president Alan García Pérez. The daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori is also detained for the Odebrecht case.

L & # 39; exmandatario Ollanta Humala, also involved in the Odebrecht scandal and that with his wife Nadine Herediahe was nine months in preventive prison, he also regretted death. "Respect the pain of your loved ones," he writes.

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Everything happened on Wednesday, around 6.30 local time (11.30 GMT), when the police went to Garcia's home in Lima's Miraflores district. The agents announced to the former president (1985-1990 and 2006-2011) a preliminary arrest warrant against the money laundering alleged in a case related to the scandal LavaJato / Odebrecht which had been the subject of an investigation by a specialized prosecutor.

Interior Minister Carlos Moran explained what happened when the judicial police came to arrest him. "He entered his room and closed the door.A few minutes later, he heard the fire from a gun and (the police) found him sitting with a head injury" , said the minister at a press conference.

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"Before the arrest warrant was issued, García had said Tuesday that he would be neither isolated nor hidden, alluding tacitly to the frustrated asylum that he had asked for." 39, Uruguay in December for imminent arrest – and that Montevideo had rejected.The court had ordered to arrest García in order to gather new elements in the investigation in case of risk of absconding, according to l. charge. García was under the microscope of justice for alleged bribes paid by Odebrecht for a contract to build the Lima metro during his second term. "

For him The scandal of Odebrecht in Peru is also the subject of an investigation. exmandatarios Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), the latter in custody. "President García has taken a decision of dignity and honor, an act of honor in the face of a fascist persecution," said Mauricio Mulder, Congressman of the Social Democrats APRA, the oldest party of Peru, to which belonged the deceased leader.

AFP / H.B.