The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, ordered this Thursday the issuance of a arrest warrant against Venezuelan journalist Carla Angola for inciting the assassination of dictator Nicolás Maduro.
“Carla Angola is convicted and confessed. When you incite assassination, you are promoting a civil war in that country,” William Saab asserted in a press conference with local media.
“The prosecutor’s office requested the arrest warrant against this lady for the alleged commission of the crime of apology, in relation to the crime of assassination”, Saab said in remarks that were broadcast by the state channel VTV. Likewise, he indicated that the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) “is conducting an investigation” in this regard.
Angola, noted Saab, “expressed publicly before viewers” on a television show, “based in Miami”that “the US uses a drone and disappears the second in command of Al Qaeda and the whole world wonders on networks why they do not do the same with Nicolás Maduro”.
He assured that, before the “answer from your interviewee, who looked terrified”Angola “insists that (Venezuela) should be considered a threat and that, in an almost direct way, since, if it is a threat, then the US should proceed to launch a drone wherever it could, according to the desire of it, to be located” Maduro “to assassinate him.”
This, the prosecutor stated, is “Simply and simply an apology for the crime of assassination”and “has had the repudiation, without a doubt, unanimous of the country”.
The State Court of First Instance in Control Functions of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas will be the one authorized to initiate the arrest request presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Tarek William Saab also reported that Carla Angola’s husband, Luis Alejandro Arévalo Troconis, will also be investigated for allegedly receiving a large sum of money from two families to acquire ownership of a property located in Caracas but which, to date, has not materialized the sale.
During his television program in Miami, Angola criticized the US policy against Maduro and asked the President of Inter American Trends, Antonio De La Cruz, Why the United States does not carry out with Nicolás Maduro an operation similar to the one carried out with the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
“Venezuela for the US administration is not a threat to its security and that is why they do not make that type of decision,” De La Cruz said.
For Angola, the relationship that Venezuela maintains with China, Russia and Iran are sufficient proof that the Caribbean country represents a danger to the US by ensuring that it is a direct drug bridge to North America with the approval of the Venezuelan authorities.
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