Mayor Form Peru Fakes Death

The mayor of Peru dressed as a deceased coronavirus victim — by lying in a coffin and wearing a face mask — to escape being detained for breaking the lock-down laws that he was expected to help impose, according to Thursday’s news.

Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres was partying with his mates in Tantará on Monday night, when he reportedly played dead to throw off the cops who had come to arrest them for defying public health orders in the middle of the pandemic, according to the UK Evening Standard.

The mayor, who has also been blamed for being missing for most of the period during the epidemic, is seen in a picture published by the local police lying in a coffin with his eyes closed.

Torres has been detained for violating curfew and social distancing laws, reports the paper.
Police claim that the mayor staged the macabre scene to appear as if he had been a victim of COVID-19, according to The Times. It wasn’t entirely obvious where he and his buddies were smoking, or why the open caskets were in the area.
In recent times, Torres has also been subject to fire by authorities for failure to open emergency quarantine shelters and for refusing to carry out health tests, according to local reports.