Overview
- Aldo Robles filed a police complaint accusing Congressman Darwin Espinoza of physically attacking him inside the La Rambla shopping center on March 11.
- Television footage from Beto a Saber showed Robles bleeding with a bandage, and reports say he received 12 stitches to an ear, eight to an eyebrow, and 15 days of medical rest.
- Espinoza rejected being the aggressor, saying he grabbed Robles’s phone after insults, was punched, and that a companion intervened to restrain the man.
- The congressman says he underwent toxicology and medico-legal exams and lodged his own complaint, while police move forward with the investigation and review of mall and store videos.
- Podemos Perú and congressional authorities had not issued formal statements, and the episode unfolds against earlier official probes into Espinoza’s conduct.