The Government of Peru asked Colombia for the preventive detention, for the purpose of extradition, of the Venezuelan Sergio Tarache Parra, who was arrested last Tuesday in Bogotá and is accused of having burned his 18-year-old Peruvian ex-partner alive in the streets of the historic center of Lima.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday that the Peruvian Embassy in Bogotá “has complied with the judicial mandate to present, to the Colombian authorities, the request for preventive detention for the purpose of extradition” of Tarache.
Local media and relatives of the victim indicated in the last hours that this Tuesday the deadline for a possible expulsion of Tarache from Colombia to Peru expired and warned that, if this did not happen, the detainee could be released.
The procedures for his extradition were initiated last Friday by the 24th Preparatory Investigation Court of the Superior Court of Justice (CSJ) of Lima, which asked to inform “the relevant authorities through diplomatic channels of the preventive detention order” against the accused.
In this sense, Judge Cristóbal Solís sent a letter to the head of the Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Nation, Edgar Rebaza Vargas, requesting that the corresponding process be initiated before the diplomatic authorities.
This communication was given one day after Solís ordered 9 months of preventive detention against the accused, after considering that “it has been shown that the accused (…) not only fled the scene after having committed the crime with extreme cruelty, ferocity (and) treachery, (…) in a premeditated, planned manner and executing the burn injuries himself, but also fleeing the national territory”.
In this regard, the Foreign Affairs statement indicated that, since his capture in Colombia, “the fiscal and diplomatic authorities exhaustively examined all possible alternatives that would allow the delivery to Peru of the Venezuelan citizen Tarache Parra, in the most expeditious and safe way possible. “.
“As a result of this, the competent authorities considered that the route of preventive detention for extradition purposes is the one that provides the greatest assurances and guarantees for an effective administration of justice in the present case,” he said.
He assured that the Foreign Ministry “will provide all the support that is required by the Peruvian judicial authorities to carry out the extradition of Sergio Tarache Parra as quickly as possible, so that he can be tried in Peru with the guarantees of due process.”
As recorded in images from the security cameras in downtown Lima on March 18, Tarache argued with the Peruvian Katherine Gómez in the central Plaza Dos de Mayo, after which he doused her body with gasoline and set it on fire.
Pedestrians tried to help the victim, who they rolled on the asphalt to put out the flames and then a taxi driver intervened with a fire extinguisher, but the attack caused burns on 60% of his body that caused his death after a week hospitalized in a Lima hospital.
Prosecutor Carla Castro has requested that Tarache be sentenced to life imprisonment, for the aggravating factors of “cruelty and treachery” and “use of fire” included in the Peruvian Penal Code, while the Peruvian Government requested a similar sentence for the crime of femicide .
Last Saturday, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Relations assured, in a statement, that it was working “to find the most agile procedure” that allows the delivery of Tarache to Peru “in compliance with the internal and international regulations applicable to the case.”
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