Venezuela Appoints Prosecutor to Investigate Threats of Assassination Against President Maduro
The President orders the Attorney General’s Office to investigate allegations of a Colombian paramilitary group during a radio program in the State of La Guaira. Photo: X/ @PresidencialVen
July 6, 2024 Hour: 12:48 pm
The Venezuelan Public Ministry appointed on Friday night the National Prosecutor’s Office number 83, to ”investigate and sanction new threats of assassination against the Head of State Nicolás Maduro”, reported the head of that entity, Tarek William Saab.
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The decision came after a statement by a paramilitary group called «Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra», better known as ”Los Pachencas”, was made public.
The statement reads that they were contacted by «groups of the extreme right #Venezuelan fascist to attack the president of the Republic and destabilize the country in the face of elections», says Saab.
A few hours earlier, President Nicolás Maduro had denounced that the Venezuelan right intends to introduce 1000 paramilitaries from Colombia, to destabilize the country’s peace.
after the release of a paramilitary group called “Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra”, better known as “Los Pachencas”
in which they state that they were contacted by far-right Venezuelan fascist groups to attack the president of the Republic and destabilize the country in the face of elections.”
The president said that “this group denounces, that they were contacted by the Venezuelan far right, to enter about a thousand men, to generate violence in the border states, attack the electricity service and when they shout fraud (right), on July 28, “, said the head of state, who stressed that Venezuela has many sources of intelligence and “we handle them wisely, with wisdom, wisdom.”
In that regard he publicly requested the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, to conduct the relevant investigations in reference to this case: “This is coming out in real time, they send it to me from Colombia, and a journalist from that country corroborated the veracity of the video of this group with the intelligence of the neo-grenadine nation”.
It was known that this group issued a press release on Friday in which they denounce having been contacted by Venezuelan far-right groups to attack the head of state.
“Our units in the department of La Guajira have been contacted by extreme right-wing groups in Venezuela, to destabilize the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the interlocutors have made all kinds of requests, including, attack the electrical infrastructure, act against the candidate president Nicolás Maduro. Act in case he is re-elected infiltrating us in protests and generating chaos in the streets,” they said.
