(18 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piura, Peru – 17 March 2025
1. The coffin of the singer Paul Flores of the Armonia 10 band arrives at the Piura Airport on a flight from the city of Lima, and is loaded onto a hearse
2. People applauding at the passing of the hearse carrying the murdered singer
3. Hundreds of people arrive at the location of the wake
4. Family and friends unload the coffin from the hearse
5. Police and fences to keep people away from the wake
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 17 March 2025
6. Mayor of San Juan de Lurigancho Jesus Maldonado, checking the security cameras
7. SOUNDBITE (New) Jesus Maldonado, Mayor of the San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima:
“Now after having approximately more than 100 deaths in my district (San Juan de Lurigancho) as a result of extortion and hired killings, and there has been no communiqué from the government, a much loved cumbia singer from my country unfortunately dies and the next day they declare a State of Emergency. These reactions have no planning, no strategy, they are reactions for the headlines."
8. Mayor with workers from his district’s security camera monitoring centre
9. Security cameras
MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN DE LURIGANCHO
Lima, Peru – 16 March 2025
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10. Various shots of the bus carrying Armonia 10 band moments before they were attacked with gunfire from motorbikes in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 12 March 2025
11. Various shots of two people killed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 17 March 2025
12. Peruvian Congress
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria del Carmen Alva, Congresswoman of the political party Popular Action:
"But unfortunately, every week, there continue to be deaths (by hitmen) and we already know everything that is happening, and I think we have already hit rock bottom and there must be political responsibility, there comes a time when you can’t wait any longer.’”
14. Congresswoman Maria del Carmen Alva
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jaime Quito, Congressman of the political Free Peru party:
"Here in the plenary session (of Congress) we will see who is with the population against insecurity or who wants to continue shielding and maintaining an incapable minister (Interior Minister Juan Santiváñes)’.”
16 Congressman Jaime Quito
GOVERNMENT PALACE
Lima, Peru – 17 March 2025
16. President Dina Boluarte, Inaugurating school year
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dina Boluarte, President of Peru:
"To these bloody murderers I say, I am seriously thinking about the death penalty."
18. President at the inauguration of the school year in a national school
STORYLINE:
Peru’s president declared a state of emergency in the capital on Monday and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a popular singer.
President Dina Boluarte’s government published a decree saying that the state of emergency will last 30 days, and authorities will restrict some rights, including the freedom of assembly and movement. That means the police and the army would be able to detain people without a judicial order.
Peru has seen an increase of killings, violent extortion and attacks on public places in recent months. Police reported 459 killings from January 1 to March 16, and 1,909 extorsion reports in January alone. But outrage crested after the killing Sunday of Paul Flores, the 39-year-old lead singer of the cumbia band Armonia 10.
The singer’s murder sent shockwaves through Peru.
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