Venezuela: Prosecutor confirms arrest of two opponents for planning to assassinate Maduro

The attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabreported this Wednesday that two members of the opposition political organization Cause They were arrested in the city of Maturín (Northeast), for the crimes of gang formation and assassination threats against the president Nicolás Maduro.

Saab explained that the crimes of those detained Whillfer José Piña Azuaje It is Renzo Estibenz Floresthey are part of a chain of events that began in May 2023 and continues to this day.

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Among the evidence found by authorities is the publication of a threat on Piña’s WhatsApp status, which says that “in Maturín (where the Venezuelan president traveled this Monday) will be the death of Maduro”.

On the phone where the aforementioned WhatsApp was stored, which was seized for analysis, “a conversation (of Piña) was found with Renzo Flores in which groups of armed hooded men are mentioned“to proceed with the operation they planned with another”people”, whose names were not found in the text.

The prosecutor explained that, when questioned, Renzo Flores stated that he met Piña about 8 months ago and that he told him about a plan he was organizing with former colleagues from Military schoolconsistent”in the recruitment of 50 soldiers to take a tank and weapons park from a military complex to carry out a coup d’état”.

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The two matters will be presented this Wednesday afternoon before a court against the terrorismfor the crimes of gang formation, association and attempted murder.

The arrest and subsequent presentation of Flores and Piña to the courts denies, in fact, that there was a forced disappearance, as the opposition stated on Tuesday. Democratic Unitary Platform and Cause R.

Source: Elcomercio

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