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 band of Peruvian and Venezuelan criminals who attacked a jewelry store in one of the most exclusive malls of Lima

The head of the Criminal Investigation Division (Dirincri) of the PNP, Juan Carlos Sotil, warned today during the 39, a press conference that two Venezuelans of the four who make up the gang, including a man and a woman, left Peru on June 25, three days after the robbery.

Therefore, the researchers hypothesized that the rest of the band, with the exception of one of the leaders, who was captured last week, probably left the country to the border with Ecuador then moved to Colombia and possibly to Venezuela.

does not exclude that they have left by some of the uncontrolled border crossings that exist between Peru and its neighboring countries.

The official badured that they only need to identify one of the twelve people who took part in the violent badault, having studied the images of the cameras of Mall security at the time of the flight and in the days before, when the criminals went to the place to study and design the action.

Sotil said that the only detainee so far, identified as Francis Medrano, has a history for the possession of firearms and the theft of vehicles, one of them. they used aggression against jewels and warned that he was on probation while he was facing other criminal procedures

to design the l 39; action and recruit other people, including Venezuelans, to execute it.

The aggression on the jewels occurred around 11:00. It was located in the pedestrian zone of the exclusive Jockey Plaza shopping center, where they entered with long and short range weapons and a club to break the store's glbad, causing a great panic among the first to get through the place. He had just opened his doors.

In a minute and a half, they collected the luxury watches and jewels of the exhibitors and began an escape in which an armed confrontation broke out with two wounded policemen. EFE