The Venezuelan president calls the detainee a “terrorist” and rejects the “narrative” of Buenos Aires about the case
MADRID, 9 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has called the Argentine gendarme detained in the country a “terrorist” and has rejected the requests for release presented by the “Nazi and Zionist” Government of Argentina, after Buenos Aires filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the “arbitrary detention” and “forced disappearance” of this person.
“A terrorist was captured, like this Argentine who has been very famous, the gendarme,” he said during an official event broadcast by the VTV television network. “The Nazi and Zionist Government of Argentina wants us to give it a prize. That we give it a decoration,” he said ironically.
“We were waiting for that man, with signs. We had hair and signs. And when he arrived, ‘there you came, little bird,'” said Maduro, who has assured that previously “other little birds had arrived, from the same nest.” “One spoke about the other and the other spoke about the other,” he noted.
Thus, he has rejected “the narrative” that “they intend to impose” from Argentina to “manipulate.” “All these mercenaries, look at the story, were good boys in love with Venezuelan women. They all came to visit their lover’s family. They all came for family reasons. They were all given the same script,” he argued.
“Who wrote the same script for everyone? They all came for tourism, camping, because they really like the beaches of La Guaira and other beautiful places that all Venezuelans like,” said Maduro.
In this sense, he has emphasized that “the Venezuelan State has the legitimate constitutional right, endorsed by International Law and the multilateral system of the United Nations, to defend itself from violence, coups, terrorism and all forms that may arise.” violate life in society.”
“The Venezuelan State is exercising and will firmly and forcefully exercise its right to self-defense,” the Venezuelan president concluded, after criticism from Argentina and the Organization of American States (OAS), which last week showed its “condemns” the “arbitrary detention” of the Argentine Gendarmerie non-commissioned officer Nahuel Gallo, prosecuted by the Venezuelan authorities for alleged “links to terrorism.”
Gallo was arrested on December 8 when he was trying to enter Venezuela by land from Colombia, supposedly with the intention of meeting his wife of Venezuelan nationality and their daughter, a version that Caracas has discarded. Venezuela accuses the man of being part of an international conspiracy to attack Maduro, a claim that Argentina has denied.