Spain: a member of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso is arrested at Madrid airport

The police of Spain detained at the Madrid Barajas airport a member of the Peruvian terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso, claimed by the authorities of the Andean country and on whom a search and arrest warrant was placed in order to be extradited.

The intervention was carried out last Friday when the police learned of the arrival at Spain of a person claimed by Peru, according to police sources reported this Sunday.

The fugitive had been inadmissible in Ecuador and was flying to Madrid, where he would land in the early afternoon.

The agents deployed at the airport established a device upon arrival of the plane at the foot of the runway and proceeded to arrest it. After his identification, it was found that the escapee He was a member of the Shining Path and was brought to justice.

The last arrest in Spain of a member of Shining Path, a terrorist organization that has killed thousands of people in Peru since the 1980s, also occurred in 2019 in Madrid.

The arrested woman was then a woman wanted by the Peruvian authorities for her relationship with events that occurred in 1999 in Lima, in which seven people died.

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