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Juan Aucca Cortez, Prosegur union delegate in Trujillo, Peru, was brutally attacked on Monday, September 19th.

An hour after Aucca left prosegur´s premises, a motorcycle and a car began to follow him. They then cut him off causing a crash which sent Aucca flying in the air.

With Aucca lying on the ground, one of the men got out of the car and started beating him, but he managed to escape. When he returned to the scene of the crash he realized he had not been the victim of a theft as nothing had been stolen.

The attack occurred 10 days after flyers containing personal information on Aucca had been anonymously disseminated throughout Prosegur´s dressing room in Trujillo, and after he denounced the company for practicing favoritism and giving advantages to some workers regarding choice of shifts, routes, per diem, and holidays.

Aucca has worked at the company for 18 years, and became a union member four years ago. He has actively fought to keep union members affiliated. However, membership in Trujillo has declined from 29 members to five.

This is not the first time a union leader of Prosegur Peru has been violently attacked, and previous attacks remain unpunished. The last time an attack occurred against Luis Cardenas, the Union's General Secretary, it was also preceded by insulting flyers distributed inside the company.

We demand that Prosegur publicly repudiate the attack against our brother Juan Aucca Cortez, provide any help necessary in the investigation process, and clearly deny any role in the attack on Aucca.