Peru searches for jewelery assailants in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela

The National Police of Peru (PNP) is coordinating with its peers from Ecuador Chile, Colombia and Venezuela to search and arrest a gang of Peruvian and Venezuelan criminals who badaulted a jeweler's shop. one of the most exclusive shopping centers in Lima.

PNP Chief of Criminal Investigation Division (Dirincri), Juan Carlos Sotil, warned today in a press conference that two of the four Venezuelans in the group, including one man and one woman left Peru on June 25, three days after the flight.

Therefore, the researchers hypothesized that the rest of the band, with the exception of one of the leaders, was captured last week, they probably left the country by the border with Ecuador then headed for Colombia and perhaps from there to Venezuela.

However, they do not exclude that they have crossed some uncontrolled border stages that exist between Peru and its neighboring countries.

The official said that they only need to identify one of the twelve people who intervened in the violent badault, after studying the images of the center's security cameras commercial in the The time of theft and the previous days, when criminals went on the spot to study and design the action.

Sotil reported that the only detainee so far, identified as Francis Medrano, has a history of firearms possession and theft. of vehicles, one of them used in the jewelry aggression, and warned that he was on probation while facing other criminal proceedings.

Police said that the captured was responsible for designing the action and recruiting other people, including they executed it to Venezuelans.

The aggression to the jeweler took place near the local time 11.00 in the pedestrian zone of the exclusive mall. Jockey Plaza, where they entered with long and short range weapons and a mbad to break the store windows, which caused great panic among the first inhabitants who crossed the place, which had just opened its doors. doors.

barely a minute and a half, they collected the exhibitors' luxurious watches and jewels and began an escape in which an armed confrontation broke out with two police officers who injured them. EFE