translated from Spanish: Alan García had a weapon when he was going to be arrested

Lima, Peru-the Peruvian President Alan García had a revolver in a pocket when on Wednesday received the public prosecutor and the police officers who went to arrest him for an alleged case of corruption, in an action that ended in his suicide, according to images displayed by the travelling Peruvian Sion. The TV program Cuarto Poder, of local American Television Network, revealed this Sunday a video of fiscal and police intervention in the House of Garcia, who was under investigation for alleged bribes of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.En the images they do not have audio, it is how the former President speaks with agents and the Prosecutor the doorbell a staircase of his house and then rises quickly the stands toward his room while he carries a revolver in his hand. 
The general commander of the national police, José Lavalle, told the programme that Garcia asked several times whether it was his arrest and climbed the stairs when she saw a police officer approached. In the last moments of the images, showing fully dressed in dark clothes, Garcia is how the exgobernante took a revolver from the right pocket of his pants and acted it in a visible way on hand. According to the account of subsequent events, agent that came up after he found closed the door of his room and the police heard that the exgobernante spoke with a person not identified by phone. Shortly after, at 06:31 hours (11:31 GMT), a shot was heard and the agents who entered the room by a balcony found badly wounded Garcia, but even with life, so it was transferred to the hospital of the Lima District of Miraflores, where he died three hours d fter. 

The coffin containing the body of the former President during the prior to the funeral mass. Photo EFE

“Here we have to say is that the police acted with caution;” the caution from the police, the correct intervention, following procedures, has resulted there is no greater damage”, said Lavalle.Este Sunday, the former Minister Nidia Vilchez also revealed that Garcia wrote his letter of farewell weeks earlier and He gave it to his personal Secretary, Ricardo Pinedo. In the letter, Garcia said that he didn’t have to suffer “the injustice” of being arrested for alleged acts of corruption and which fulfilled its mission as a politician and ruler of his country. The President of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, also rejected that it is intended to link the Executive to suicide, since followers of Garcia stated during his wake that the Government, prosecutors and the press of research pressured the Uribe until take it to his fatal decision. Vizcarra said that that the Executive had any intervention in this case is “perfectly fake” and recalled that the judiciary and the public prosecutor’s Office are autonomous in Peru.los Alan García remains were cremated Friday at a Lima cemetery, in one private ceremony in which only involved close relatives and political leaders.

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