[News] Lima prohibits "windshield wipers" from its streets after the murder of a driver who refused to receive the service

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The initiative aims to combat citizen insecurity that has been generated after the crime of a taxi driver, who was stabbed in the chest with scissors by one of those individuals.

The Municipality of Lima on Wednesday prohibited the activities of "windshield wipers" – people who clean car windows – on the streets of the city, after one of them murdered a driver for refusing their services.

The municipal ordinance that prohibits windshield cleaning services or other parts of vehicles in the Lima metropolitan area was published this Wednesday in the official gazette, after the municipal council approved the initiative last Friday to combat citizen insecurity. Several districts of Lima announced similar measures amid the outrage generated in the Peruvian capital by the murder of Gian Marco Caro, a taxi driver who was at a crossroads in the city center, on April 5, by José Alberto Jirón, a Venezuelan national, who was dedicated to washing car windshields. The victim refused to let Jirón clean the windows of his vehicle and he reacted violently and plunged scissors into her chest, which caused her death.

The National Police detained the suspect and the Peruvian justice system imposed eight months in pretrial detention while he is being prosecuted.

The municipal ordinance prohibits the activities of windshield wipers on express, arterial, collector and road interchanges in Metropolitan Lima and on local roads in the historic center.

 

 

As he points out, its purpose is to safeguard the health, integrity and safety of drivers and occupants of vehicles that transit in the Peruvian capital, "who are threatened by people who, transgressing traffic regulations, enter the roads" to work offering to wash windshields or other parts of vehicles.

These types of activities have proliferated in many streets of Lima, which are also the focus of common crime, such as the theft of cell phones and other valuables.

The norm will enter into force on Thursday, April 20 and empowers the 43 districts of the province of Lima to regulate the provisions to adopt this ordinance in their local roads.

The inspectors of the municipality of Lima will be in charge of the operations to comply with the norm, with the support of the National Police and the Public Ministry.

 

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