The Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado This Wednesday he blamed Nicolas Maduro of the “bodily integrity” of Milciades Avilaformer police officer and head of safety for her staff, arrested this morning for alleged “gender violence in opposition to some ladies” who final Saturday “tried to assault” her together with the opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
«This morning (Milciades Ávila) was kidnapped by the regime accused of gender violence in opposition to some ladies who final Saturday tried to assault Edmundo and me in (the restaurant) La Encrucijada (…) there are dozens of witnesses and movies that present that this act was a deliberate provocation to go away us with out safety 11 days earlier than July twenty eighth»the opponent wrote in X.
Machado additionally held Maduro liable for what could occur to “one other 24 folks” on his staff and that of González Urrutia – the standard-bearer of the most important opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)-, who -he said- are “kidnapped and at present prisoners of tyranny.”
“I’m alerting the world about Maduro’s escalation of repression in opposition to those that work within the Marketing campaign or assist us wherever within the nation (…) he has made violence and repression his marketing campaign”he stated.
On Saturday, upon coming back from a marketing campaign exercise in Valencia, Carabobo state, Machado and González Urrutia have been on the institution when some ladies – recognized by varied witnesses as members of Chavismo – tried to interrupt into the institution shouting and pushing, as proven in movies revealed on social networks, the place a state safety officer might be seen not intervening within the incident.
Ávila was arrested whereas he was in his dwelling, in line with the Vente Venezuela get together – led by Machado – on the identical social platform, the place they demanded his “rapid launch.”
This Tuesday, the NGO Foro Penal reported that Venezuelan authorities have arrested 102 folks linked to González Urrutia’s marketing campaign this yr.to which Ávila is now added, the NGO Foro Penal denounced on Tuesday.
Of the 102 arrests – some for a couple of hours and others with imprisonment so far – 77 occurred because the formal begin of the marketing campaign on July 4, which displays “a transparent sample of motion in opposition to activists, militants, even collaborators or individuals who present their companies” to González Urrutia and Machado, stated Gonzalo Himiob, director of the Penal Discussion board.
Along with González Urrutia, 9 different candidates will compete for the presidency within the elections on July 28, together with the Chavista chief Nicolás Maduro, who will search his third time period. EFE (I)
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